Sunday 16th June 1918

Billetted in huts at Granezza.

At 12 noon the ‘stand-to’ order which had been in place for the previous 33 hours was finally cancelled. 

Pte. Henry Grimshaw (see 3^rd April) was ordered to undergo seven day’s Field Punishment no.2 and to forfeit three days’ pay; the nature of his offence is unknown.

Pte. Ernest Townsend (see 6^th June) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance to 23^rd Division Rest Station; he was again suffering from scabies for which he had been treated on several previous occasions. He would be discharged and re-join the Battalion after six days.

Ptes. Herbert Stanley Smith (see 30^th October 1917) and Leonard Beaconsfield Turner (see 13^th December 1917) were both admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance to 23^rd Division Rest Station, suffering from “I.C.T.” (Inflammation of the connective tissue); Smith would be discharged to duty after three days and Turner after six.  


Cpl. John Henry Crawshaw (see 5^th May), serving at the Regimental Depot at Halifax, was posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.