Wednesday 1st May 1918

Billets at Cornedo Vicentino.

Pte. James Longworth (see 9^th March), serving at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia, was attached to 273^rd Area Employment Company.

Pte. Eli Bradley (see 8^th August 1917), serving in India with 1DWR, was admitted to hospital in Gharial, suffering from neurasthenia; he would be discharged to duty after 16 days, having been treated with ‘bromide, arsenic and strychnine’.

L.Cpl. Wilson Pritchard M.M. (see 12^th October 1917) was commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant with the Army Cyclist Corps. 

Maj. Harry Robert Hildyard (see 2^nd February) was transferred from the Royal Defence Corps and posted to the Army General List, awaiting a further posting.

Pte. Horace Trinder (see 23^rd April), who was on leave before reporting to Northern Command Depot at Ripon, was admitted to 3^rd Southern General Hospital in Oxford, having suffered a recurrence of “pains and swellings of legs”. He would be treated for four days before being transferred to the Military Hospital at Cowley Barracks where he would be treated for a further five days, following which he would be discharged and posted, as had been intended prior to his illness, to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

Pte. Robert Smith (235360) (see 20^th September 1917) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit due to wounds suffered in action. He had suffered severe wounds in September 1917 which had resulted in the amputation of his right leg below the knee and was awarded an Army pension (details unknown).

An examination conducted at the Ida Convalescent Hospital, Leeds on the condition of Carl Parrington Branthwaite (see 12^th March), who had been permanently discharged from the Army on account of illness contracted in service, found him to be, “delicate, cheeks flushed, nutrition poor, wound unhealed with drainage tube in situ”. He was to remain in hospital.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Joseph Fox (see 16^th April), who had been killed in action in October 1917; his mother, Mary, was awarded 8s. per week.

An increase was authorised in the pension award in the case of the late CSM James Davis MM (see 18^th December 1917) who had died of wounds in June 1917; the amount payable to his widow, Charlotte, was to be increased from £1 7s. 11d. to £1 10s. 5d. per week.

A review was carried out of the pension award to Marcella Stott, widow of the late Pte. Charles Arthur Stott (see 13^th December 1917), who had been killed in action on 10^th June; the amount of her pension payment was increased from 18s. 9d. to £1 3s. 4d. per week.

A further review of the pension award which had been made in respect of the late Pte. Bertram Stanley Temperton (see 18^th July 1917) who had been killed in action in July 1916, resulted in the weekly pension payable to his widow, Alice, being increased from 19s. 3d. to £1 5s. 8d. per week.

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