Monday 8th April 1918

Support trenches to the right Brigade near Malga Fassa on the forward slopes of Mount Kaberlaba.

The weather remained cold and wet, with showers of rain, sleet and snow.

Pte. Nathaniel Bather (see 19^th March) re-joined the Battalion from 23^rd Division Rest Station.

Pte. James Stott (see 23^rd March) was transferred from 51^st Stationery Hospital at Arquata Scrivia to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albaro, near Genoa.; he had been suffering from myalgia.

2Lt. Fred Baume (see 16^th November 1917) serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was promoted Acting Captain “whilst employed as an Area Anti-Gas Officer”.

Pte. Robert McCall (see 9^th February), who had been severely wounded six months previously, suffering major chest wounds, appeared before an Army Medical Board assembled at Springburn Hospital in Glasgow. The Board recommended that he be discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Sgt. Thomas Sheldon (see 14^th January), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; his widow, Emma, was awarded 16s. 3d. per week.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Arthur Thornton (see 12^th February) who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; his widow, Edith, was awarded 13s. 9d. per week.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Lewis Lunn (see 17^th January), who had died of wounds on 23^rd September 1917; his widow, Gertrude, was awarded 18s. 9d. per week, for herself and her son.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Joseph Henry Woodcock (see 21^st January), who had died of wounds on 30^th September 1917; his widow, Ethel, was awarded 18s. 9d. per week, for herself and her son.