Tuesday 14th May 1918

Billets at Cornedo Vicentino.

It was around this time that a photograph was taken in billets at Cornedo featuring Battalion Medical Officer Capt. Leslie Fraser Eiloart Jeffcoat (see 5^th January) (left) and 2Lt. Cyril Edward Agar (see 16^th March)  (right).

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Pte. Edwin Baldwin (see 4^th August 1917), serving in France with the Motor Transport Section of the Army Service Corps, was ordered to be confined to barracks for seven days having been reported ‘being in a street out of bounds’.

L.Cpl. Ernest Gee (see 3^rd April), who had been absent without leave from 3DWR at North Shields for the previous six weeks, returned to duty and was placed in detention awaiting trial.

Pte. Harry Crawshaw (see 2^nd April) reported for duty at Northern Command Depot at Ripon and was immediately admitted to hospital as still suffering from nephritis.

Pte. George King (25833) (see 6^th February), who had been evacuated to England three months previously suffering from Addison’s disease, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service. He was awarded a pension of 27s. 6d. per week for four weeks, reducing to 13s. 9d. and to be reviewed in one year.

A payment of £5 6s. 7d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Arthur Cawley (see 18^th October), who had been killed in action on 18^th October 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.


A pension award was made in the case of the late A/Sgt. James Collings (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action in September 1917; his widow, Mary Ann, was awarded £1 10s. 10d. per week.