Thursday 20th June 1918

Front line trenches between San Sisto and Poslen.

Ptes. Alfred Fishlock (see 21^st April), Joseph Hartley (see 21^st April), Robert Jackson (see 21^st April) and Walter Gee Wardley (see 21^st April), who had been part of the working party which had been detached since April for work at at Rocchetto Station, south-east of Verona, now re-joined the Battalion. 

Sgt. Lionel Vickers (see 9^th June), who had been away from the Battalion since suffering an injury to his knee suffered whilst playing football in February, re-joined from the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia. Ptes. Harry Bailey (25198) (see 4^th June), William Henry Cleaver (see 4^th June), George Green (22749) (see 26^th April), Samuel Richards (see 20^th May), Ernest John Robbins (see 27^th May), William Smart (see 6^th June) and Hiram Tasker (see 15^th April) also re-joined the Battalion from Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Percival William Hall (see 7^th June) was transferred from 51st Stationary Hospital at Arquata Scrivia to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano.

Pte. Albert Edward White (see 15^th June), who had been wounded on 15^th June, was transferred from 29^th Stationery Hospital in Cremona to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera.
2Lt. John Robert Cass (see 7^th June 1917), who had left the Battalion having been wounded on 7^th June 1917, was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps; the details of his service are unknown.

Pte. Herbert Holt (see 30th December 1917), who had been in England since 1^st January, was posted back to France and would join 2DWR.

2Lt. Frederick Millward MC (see 7^th June), who had been severely injured during a trench raid carried out in November 1916 and had had his right leg amputated above the knee, wrote to the War Office:

“Acting on advice received, I have the honour to write in search of information. I have lost my right leg just above the knee and my stump has been fit for an artificial limb for quite twelve months and has been reported as such on every Medical Board I have attended during that period. I have not yet received a limb and as this is the only thing which prevents me from being of further military service (as a War Office return in April stated) I feel rather aggrieved at the delay. In addition, until I have received a limb I shall be unable to obtain civil employment and, as I have no private means to rely upon until I do get employment, I would like to know if I can get any additional allowance until fitted with an artificial leg. I have also been advised by Sir Frederick Milner to ask if any allowance goes with the Military Cross and also if I am due any further gratuity for the loss of a limb”.


L.Cpl. Ernest Wilson (28985) (see 31^st May) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of the wounds he had suffered in September 1917; he was awarded an Army pension of £1 7s. 6d. per week for four weeks, reducing thereafter to 13s. 9d. per week and to be reviewed after one year.