Sunday 21st April 1918

Billetted in huts at Granezza

Starting out at 10am, the Battalion marched eight miles south, descending from the plateau, via Sciessere, Campana, Lusiana and Velo to San Fortunato, just south of Fara. Pte. Harold Charnock (see 11^th April) recalled that, “The march from Granezza was a very wet one with a strong north-easterly wind”.  

Lt. Arthur Poynder Garratt (see 15^th January) left the Battalion to return to the UK having been transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.

Pte. Cyril Hollingsworth (see 25^th March), who had been posted back to England a month previously, suffered fractures to the tibia and fibula of his left leg in an accident; the precise circumstances and the details of his treatment are unknown.

Pte. Reginald James Nosworthy (see 27^th March) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance to 23^rd Division Rest Station, suffering from inflammation to his right foot; he would be discharged and return to duty after seven days.

Pte. Jonas Yoxall (see 5^th October 1917) was admitted to 23^rd Division Rest Station suffering from myalgia; he would be discharged and return to duty five days later.

A number of men from the Battalion were attached to a working party to Rocchetto Station, south-east of Verona. The size of the working party and its precise purpose are unknown, but the men who have been confirmed as being attached were: Ptes. Robert Baldwin (see 5^th October 1917); Joseph Barnes (see 21^st June 1917); Nathaniel Bather (see 8^th April), Joe Arthur Bentley (see 11^th June 1917); Percy Burrows (see 29^th October 1917); Bertie Cox (see 29^th October 1917); Walter Dey (see 21^st December 1917); John William Farrer (see 5^th July 1917); Alfred Fishlock (see 11^th March); Joseph Hadley (see 21^st March); Joseph Hartley (see 31^st December 1917); William Hewitt (25172) (see 19^th February); Robert Jackson (see 29^th October 1917); Charles Knight (see 5^th July 1917); Richard Metcalfe (see 22^nd March); William Naylor (see 23^rd September 1917); John Richard Newell (see 5^th January); Walter Gee Wardley (see 5^th January) and Frederick William Warner (see 20^th March).

Pte. Ernest Franklin (25969) (see 31^st March), who had been suffering from ‘trench fever’, was evacuated to England from 57^th General Hospital at Marseilles. He would travel onboard the Hospital Ship St. Andrew and on arrival in England would be admitted to the Voluntary Auxiliary Hospital in Cirencester.

Pte. Henry Charles Lindsay (see 18^th March), serving in France with 2DWR, was evacuated to England, having been wounded in the left thigh (the exact date on which he had been wounded is unknown).

Pte. Harold Parsons (see 24^th January), serving in France with 2DWR, was posted back to England, suffering from psoriasis.

2Lt. William Jones MM (see 10^th April), serving with 2^nd Battalion, Border Regiment, was posted back to England on three weeks’ sick leave, following a Medical Board held at Le Havre. His address whilst in the UK would be Quarry Cottage, Knot Hill, Carlisle.