Thursday 4th 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.

Ptes. James Frederick Coldwell (see 17^th March), Richard Harold Haresnape (see 16^th January 1917), Arnold Robson (see 14^th February), John Edward Varley (see 16^th January 1917), John Walton (see 30^th October 1917), William Herbert Websdale (see 16^th December 1917) and Edwin Wright (see 11^th December 1917) were all appointed ‘Drummer’.

L.Cpl. Thomas Lloyd (see 28^th January), on attachment from 2^nd/6^th DWR to 457^th Field Company, Royal Engineers, was attached to 186^th Infantry Brigade Pioneer Company.

Trooper Claude Darwin (see 2^nd February), serving in Egypt with 1^st Field Squadron, Engineers, Anzac Mounted Division, was admitted to hospital suffering from malaria. He was the brother of Tunstill recruit, Pte. Tom Darwin (see 2^nd February), who had recently been discharged from the army.

Pte. William Axton (see 14^th March), who had been in England since having been severely wounded on 20^th September 1917, was formally discharged from the Army as being no longer physically fit for service. He was awarded a pension of 27s. 6d. per week for four weeks, reducing to 22s. per week and to be reviewed in six months’ time.

Pte. Frederick Thomas Hollis (see 8^th September 1917) was formally discharged from the Army on account of wounds suffered in action. In the absence of a surviving service record it has not been possible to establish the circumstances or date of his having been wounded.


A payment of £7 18s. 10d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. John Arthur Cole (see 20^th November 1917), who had been killed in action in November 1917 while serving with 2^nd/6^th DWR; the payment would go to his mother, Jemima.

A pension award was made in the case of the late L.Cpl. James Lister Petty (see 27^th February), who had been killed in action on 18^th September 1917; his widow, Fanny, was awarded 18s. 9d. per week, for herself and her son.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Harold Shaw (12758) (see 27^th December 1917), who had been killed in action in September 1917; his mother, Martha, was awarded 12s. per week.