Tuesday 21st May 1918

In billets at Valle di Sopra and Covolo.

Pte. James Isaac King (see 16^th May) who had, five days previously, been reported absent without leave, was arrested and placed in confinement to await trial by Field General Court Martial.

Pte. Arthur Thomas Wilford (see 26^th April) was admitted via 24^th Casualty Clearing Station to 38^th Stationery Hospital in Genoa, suffering from an abscess to his jaw.

Pte. John Henry Fidler (see 29^th November 1917) was temporarily attached for duty to 23^rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps.

2Lt. Arthur Lilley (see 26^th April), who had left the Battalion a month previously to return to the UK for transfer to the RAF, reported at the Air Ministry and was formally transferred to the RAF. 

Pte. Walter William Scott (see 9^th January), who had been posted back to England in January suffering from bronchitis, was posted from Northern Command Depot at Ripon to 3DWR at North Shields. However, he was immediately reported absent off sick parade. He would return two days later and would be awarded two days’ Field Punishment no.2.

A payment of £6 7s. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. John Crossley (see 21^st December 1917), who had died on 21^st December 1917; the payment would go to his married sister, Ada Robinson. 

A payment of £5 11d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Cpl. Gilbert Swift Greenwood (see 31^st January), who had died of wounds on 2^nd January; the payment would go to his father, John. 

A payment of £8 10s. 5d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Gnr. George Thistlethwaite (see 22^nd March), who had died of wounds on 18^th February; the payment would go to his father, John. 

Gnr. George Thistlethwaite

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Stanley Peace (see 27^th March 1918), who had died of wounds in September 1917; his mother, Mary Ann, was awarded 10s. per week.