Saturday 8th June 1918

Front line trenches north-west of Mount Kaberlaba.

Ptes. George Towler Brown (see 22^nd May), George Allen Holroyd (see 8^th February) and and John Starling (see 27^th March) were admitted via 70^th Field Ambulance to 9^th Casualty Clearing Station; both were suffering from suspected influenza. Pte. Starling would be discharged and re-join the Battalion after just four days, but the others would remain under treatment.

L.Sgt. Albert Hoggarth (see 8^th November 1917) departed on one weeks’ leave in Italy.

A new Battalion Medical Officer arrived to replace Capt. Leslie Fraser Eiloart Jeffcoat (see 2^nd June), who had left the Battalion to join 69^th Field Ambulance. Jeffcoat had been temporarily replaced by Capt. Treffry Owen Thompson of the RAMC, but he now re-joined his unit and was replaced by an American Medical Officer, Capt. Norman Robert Davis; he was a ‘physician and surgeon’ originally from Allenwood, Pennsylvania, but had been living and working in Grantsville, Maryland. He was a married man and joined the Battalion one day before his 30^th birthday. He had originally sailed from New York on the S.S. Kroonland in September 1917 and had been on active service since 3^rd October 1917.

Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum