Wednesday 8th May 1918

Billets at Cornedo Vicentino.

The second part of the Brigade Sports were to have been held, but were postponed until the following Sunday, 12^th May.

Pte. Herbert Newton (see 18^th March), serving in France with 5DWR was admitted to hospital (cause unknown); he would be discharged after four days.

Pte. Joseph Leonard Holmes (see 10^th April), serving in France with 2DWR, who had recently been noted as being “unfit for military service having been an inmate of an asylum” was posted back to England.

Pte. Frank Blakeborough (see 26^th January), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, appeared before an Army Medical Board at Ripon; the Board found him unfit for further service and recommended that he be discharged from the Army.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Jabez Wintersgill (see 2^nd November 1917), who had been killed in action in September 1917. His sister, Maggie, was awarded 10s. 6d. per week; it is uncler why the pension was payable to his sister, rather than to his mother.