Sunday 19th May 1918

In tents and bivouacs at Fontanelli.

Starting out at 7.40am, the Battalion marched a further six miles north, from Fontanelli up the valley of the Astico River, via Lugo di Vicenza to tents and bivouacs south of the village of Mare.

L.Cpl. Frank Mallinson MM (see 5^th May), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was reported for “being improperly dressed in Saville Street without a permit about 11.15 pm; ie not wearing puttees”; he was reprimanded, but suffered no other punishment.

Pte. Edwin Dawson (see 30^th September 1917), who had been in England since having suffered severe wounds to his chest, left wrist and left foot on 20^th September 1917, was posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.