Sunday 1st July 1918

Support positions near Mount Torle.

Work with the Royal Engineers continued.

Pte. George Allen Holroyd (see 8^th June) re-joined the Battalion following three weeks’ treatment for influenza.

Cpl. Walter Smith (18428) (see 17^th June), L.Cpl. John Lamb Watt (see 17^th June) and Pte. William Ryan (see 9^th April) were transferred from the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albaro to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

L.Cpl. Frederick James Lynch (see 21^st June) and Ptes. Thomas James Hogben (see 21^st June) and Herbert Jacklin (see 21^st June) who had been wounded on 21^st June, were transferred from 29^th Stationary Hospital in Cremona to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albaro, near Genoa. 

Pte. Cyril Hollingsworth (see 21^st April), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was reported for “breaking out of his billet after tattoo and remaining absent until seen by Military Foot Police at 11.25pm”; he was ordered to be confined to barracks for three days.

Pte. Ernest Franklin (25969) (see 15^th June), serving at the Regimental Depot at Halifax, was admitted to Halifax Military Hospital, suffering from influenza; he would be discharged to duty after nine days.

Pte. Percival Albert Wiggins (see 17^th May), serving at Northern Command Depot at Ripon, was admitted to hospital, suffering from influenza; he would be discharged to duty after seven days.

Lt. Harold Lockhart Waite (see 30^th May), serving at the Royal Flying Corps' No. 5 School of Military Aeronautics at Denham, was attached to the Air Ministry for duty.

Pte. John Dennis Moss (see 2^nd May), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was formally transferred to Army Reserve Class P; this classification of the reserve applied to men “whose services were deemed to be temporarily of more value to the country in civil life rather than in the Army”. He was to resume his previous employment as a coal miner in Durham with Lambton and Hetton Collieries.

A payment of £6 16s. 2d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Thomas Cragg (see 14^th April) who had been killed in action while serving with 1^st/7^th DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Annie.

Pte. Thomas Cragg