Saturday 27th April 1918

Billets at Cornedo Vicentino.

A second day of steady rain.

Pte. Edgar Baron (see 22^nd March) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 24^th Casualty Clearing Station to 51^st Stationary Hospital in Genoa, suffering from German measles.

Pte. Thomas Henry Cox (25806) (see 16^th February) was admitted via 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 29^th Stationary Hospital at Cremona, suffering from inflammation to his right forearm. 

Pte. Harry Barraclough MM (see 20^th April), serving with 23^rd Battalion  Machine Gun Corps, was transferred from 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera; he was now diagnosed as suffering from venereal disease and, in accordance with regulations, he became subject to a stoppage of pay and allowances.

Pte. Walter Ralph (see 6^th July 1917), elder brother of Pte. Kit Ralph (see 30^th April 1917) who had been killed at Le Sars in October 1916, was wounded in action while serving with 1^st/5^th York and Lancasters; he suffered a severe wound to his right knee. 

Pte. Greenwood Speak (see 16^th April), who had been in England since having been wounded on 10^th June 1917, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service; he was granted a pension of 27s. 6d. per week to be reviewed after six months.

A payment of £4 13s. 7d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Frederick James Farthing (see 23rd April), who had been killed in action on 17^th October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Frederick.

A remarriage gratuity of £34 5s. 6d. was paid to the recently re-married Mrs. Catherine Ashby, widow of the late Pte. Thomas Wood (see 25^th March), who had been killed in action in June 1917.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Herbert Hirst (see 14^th January), who had been killed in action in September 1917; his mother, Emily, was awarded 12s. 6d. per week.