Wednesday 15th May 1918

Billets at Cornedo Vicentino.

Pte. Albert Jeffrey (see 3^rd September 1917) was reported by 2Lt. Fred Dyson (see 17^th February), Sgt. John Stephenson (see 15^th April) and L.Sgt. George Heeley (see 25^th October 1917) for being “absent from billets after roll call until 11.25pm; drunk and causing a disturbance; making an improper remark to an officer”; on the orders of Maj. William Norman Town (see 12^th May) he would undergo 21 days’ Field Punishment no.1.

Pte. Albert Reynolds (see 25^th April) was reported by 2Lt. Albert Joseph Acarnley MC (see 24^th March) for “neglect of duty, ie not being on parade at correct time”; he was reprimanded by Lt. Thomas Beattie (see 25^th April).

Pte. John Walter Gethen (see 12^th April), serving with 69^th Trench Mortar Battery, was again admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance to 23^rd Division Rest Station; on this occasion he was suffering from ‘ICT’ (inflammation of the connective tissue) to both legs.

Pte. Thomas Walter Mellin (see 2^nd May) was posted from ‘F’ Infantry Base Depot at Etaples to return to active service; he re-joined 9DWR.

Pte. Fred Smith (15149) (see 2^nd December 1917), who had been in England since having been wounded in December 1917, was posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

At home in Bradford, Sabina McEvoy, wife of Pte. William McEvoy (see 11th April 1918), gave birth to the couple’s first child; she would be named Ellen.  

L.Cpl. Walter Maynard Willis (see 23^rd April), who had been committed to an asylum three weeks previously, was formally discharged from the Army. His wife, Jeannie, was granted a pension of 27s. 6d. per week, to be reviewed in six months’ time.


A payment of £2 17s. 1d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Fred Crabtree (see 28^th December 1917), who had been reported missing in action in May while serving with 2DWR; the payment would go to his father, Thomas.

A second payment, of 6s. 4d. was authorised, on the account of the late Pte. Francis John Bottomley (see 28^th March), who had been killed in action on 21^st November 1917 while serving with 2/4^th DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah.