Friday 7th June 1918

Front line trenches north-west of Mount Kaberlaba.

Pte. Thomas Butler (see 1^st June) was admitted via 70^th Field Ambulance and 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 29^th Stationary Hospital in Cremona, suffering from influenza.

Pte. Reginald James Nosworthy (see 21^st April) was admitted to 70^th Field Ambulance, suffering from suspected influenza; he would be discharged and re-join the Battalion after four days.

Pte. Edwin Kenyon (see 15^th March) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance to 23^rd Division Rest Station, suffering from scabies. He would be discharged and re-join the Battalion after eight days.

Pte. Edwin Kenyon

Pte. Frank Easterby (see 29^th May) was discharged from 38^th Stationary Hospital in Genoa, following treatment for influenza, and posted back to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albaro, near Genoa.

Pte. Percival William Hall (see 25^th April), serving at XIV Corps Reinforcement Camp at Arquata Scrivia, was admitted via 21^st Field Ambulance and 24^th Casualty Clearing Station to 51st Stationary Hospital also at Arquata Scrivia.
2Lt. Frederick Millward MC (see 6^th December 1917), who had been severely injured during a trench raid carried out in November 1916 and had had his right leg amputated above the knee, appeared before a further Army Medical Board assembled at RAMC HQ, Scarborough. The Board reported simply that, “There is no change in his condition as he is still waiting for an artificial limb”.

The weekly edition of the Craven Herald included an In Memoriam notice for Pte. Charles Arthur Stott (see 1st May), who had been killed in action on 10^th June 1917.

STOTT – In ever loving memory of Private C. A. Stott, stretcher bearer, 10th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, who was killed in action on June 10th, 1917.

“May his reward be as great as his sacrifice.”

“May he rest in peace – Amen.”

From his loving Wife and Child, 11 Bennett Street, Skipton.

 

Pte. Charles Arthur Stott