Thursday 11th 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.

During the day the Battalion relieved 9Yorks in the left sub-sector of the right Brigade, between San Sisto and Poslen, with the relief complete by 6pm.  Two Companies went into the front line, with one Company in support and one in reserve. Pte. Harold Charnock (see 3^rd April) recalled that, “we were in dug-outs and huts.  HQ and support were in a large wood with a good view of the Piave Front Line”. An outpost line of seven advanced posts had recently been established some 500 yards in advance of the Divisional front line. Each of these posts was manned by three snipers during the day but by one officer and 20 other ranks overnight. 10DWR now took on responsibility for four of these advanced posts in the region of the Guardinlati Spur.

According to the Brigade War Diary, “our artillery again greatly increased its activity and hostile batteries began to reply. Owing to the width of no man’s land there was great scope for patrol activity. Full advantage was taken of this and our patrols were out nightly”.

Pte. Harold Dale (see 31^st December) was reported killed in action; the exact circumstances under which he was killed are unknown as there is no specific mention in the Battalion War Diary of any casulaties on this day (though the death of one other rank would be noted for the month as a whole). He would be buried at Barenthal Military Cemetery.

Sgt. Lionel Vickers (see 22^nd February), who had suffered an accidental injury to his knee whilst playing football in February, was discharged from 11^th General Hospital in Genoa and transferred to 16^th Convalescent Depot at Marseilles.

Pte. Ernest George Denyer (see 22^nd March) was transferred from 11^th General Hospital in Genoa to one of the hospitals in Marseilles; he was suffering from psoriasis.

Capt. Frank Redington MC (see 10^th April 1917), formerly of 10DWR, but now serving with 25^th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, was taken prisoner near Ploegsteert. He would be held at a prisoner of war camp at Karlsruhe.

Pte. James Arthur Heap (see 21^st March) was discharged from the Auxiliary Military Hospital, Southall, where he had been treated following an acute episode of haemmerhoids; he returned to duty with the Labour Corps, but remained in England.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Fred Heppinstall (see 6^th April), who had been killed in action in September 1917; his widow, Esther, was awarded 18s. 9d. per week.