Tuesday 9th 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. William Ryan (see 21^st March) and Joseph McDermott (see 7^th March) were transferred from 11^th General Hospital in Genoa to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano.
Pte. Selwyn Stansfield (see 13^th December 1917), serving in France with 1^st/5^th DWR, was admitted to 3^rd Casualty Clearing Station at Gezaincourt, suffering from “P.U.O.” (pyrexia, or high temperature, of unknown origin); next day he would be transferred via no.4 Ambulance Train to one of the Base Hospitals at Wimereux (details unknown).

Overnight 9^th-10^th 2Lt. Charles Leonard Chorley (see 31^st July 1917), brother of Pte. Richard Cleasby Chorley (see 23^rd March) was involved in an action for which he would subsequently be awarded the Military Cross. 2Lt. Chorley was serving with 2^nd/5^th Lancashire Fusiliers near Givenchy when, “whilst leading eight men up a communication  trench, he met two machine gunners with their guns trained down the trench, and forced them to surrender, with their guns”; it was also said that he had previously, “led parties against enemy posts which had been established during an attack and, on each occasion, killed or captured them”.

2Lt. Charles Leonard Chorley

A payment of £4 19s. 7d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Sgt. James Scott MM (14445) (see 17^th December); who had been killed in action on 18^th October 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Leah. 


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Amos Oddy (see 4^th March), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; his mother, Agnes, was awarded 7s. per week.