Wednesday 10th 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. Overnight 10^th/11^th there was a heavy fall of snow.

Pte. James Henry Lomax (see 18^th December 1917) was awarded seven days’ Field Punishment no.2; the nature of his offence is unknown.

L.Cpl. Joseph Henry Haywood (see 3^rd April) was discharged from 71^st Field Ambulance, following treatment for bronchitis; however, it would be a further ten days before he actually re-joined the Battalion.

Pte. Matthew Henry Jubb (see 8^th February), serving with 1^st/4^th DWR, was reported wounded and missing in action. Reports received in June 1919 from Cpl. Collins, who had been with Jubb, and had been a prisoner of war in Germany, would establish that, “Pte. Jubb was badly wounded above the right knee and was picked up by two German Red Cross men who carried them (ie Jubb and Collins) to an old farm building where Jubb died after being there about six hours. The place was just outside Erquingham, near Armentieres”. Jubb would be buried by the Germans at a military cemetery at Fleurbaix, but after the war his remains would be exhumed and re-interred at Rue David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix.


Pte. Harold Wider (see 16^th August 1917), serving in France with 2/7^th DWR, was admitted to 3^rd Casualty Clearing Station at Gezaincourt having been wounded in a recent action; he would be evacuated via no.4 Ambulance Train to one of the Base Hospital at Wimereux (details unknown).

The Directorate of the Army Medical Services wrote to the Medical Directorate of the British Army in France regarding Pte. Joseph Leonard Holmes (see 18^th March), who had recently been posted back to France to join 2DWR. The letter stated that, “I am directed to inform you that, in view of this man’s past medical history, and the fact that he had been an inmate of an asylum, it is considered that he is unfit for military service. I am therefore to request that he may be returned to this country at the first available opportunity, with a view to his discharge from the service.”

After ten days’ treatment at 2^nd General Hospital, Le Havre, 2Lt. William Jones MM (see 28^th March), was discharged to duty with 2^nd Battalion, Border Regiment.

Capt. Gilbert Tunstill (see 11^th March) appeared before a further Army Medical Board assembled at Tynemouth. The Board found simply that, “he has now recovered and is able to march”. He was declared fit for general service and instructed to re-join 3DWR at North Shields.

The London Gazette published notice of the award of the Military Medal to Sgt. Christopher Clapham (see 24^th March).

A second payment, of 19s., was authorised, on the account of the late Pte. Herbert Briggs (see 16^th February), who had been killed in action on 17^th October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Robert.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Henry Cox (see 26^th January 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; his mother, Eunice Smith was awarded 12s. 6d. per week.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Tom Horsfall (see 27^th March), who had died of wounds in October 1917; his mother, Mary, was awarded 7s. per week.
A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Thomas Manuell (see 21^st February 1918) who had been killed in action in September 1917; his father, Joe, was awarded 4s. per week.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. John (Jack) Williams (see 9^th January 1918), who had died of wounds in September 1917; his mother, Elizabeth, was awarded 10s. per week, later (in June) reduced to 6s.