Thursday 6th June 1918

Front line trenches north-west of Mount Kaberlaba.

L.Cpl. Alfred Hanson (see 12^th October 1917) and Pte. Ernest Townsend (see 10^th May) were admitted to 70^th Field Ambulance, suffering from suspected influenza; they would be discharged and re-join the Battalion after three days. Pte. Arthur Greenbank (see 20^th August 1917), who had been transferred (date and details unknown) to 69^th Machine Gun Company, was also admitted suffering from influenza; he too would be discharged and return to duty, in his case after four days.

Ptes. Joseph Hadley (see 21^st April) and John Richard Newell (see 30^th May), who were on attachment with the working party at Rocchetto Station, south-east of Verona, were each reported as having a “dirty rifle on parade”; both would be confined to barracks for three days.

L.Cpl. Ernest Gee (see 27^th May) and Ptes. Herbert Farrand Hogley (see 28^th March) and Samuel Walker (see 13^th April), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, were posted back to France to join 2DWR.

Following a year’s treatment for wounds suffered in the attack on the Messines Ridge on 7^th June 1917, Capt. Alfred Percy Harrison MC (see 6^th December 1917) was finally discharged from hospital and posted to 3DWR at North Shields; he had been re-classified as medical category C1 and therefore suitable only for service at home.

Pte. Harry Hinchliffe (see 2^nd May 1917), who had been in England since May 1917 having been wounded while serving in France with 9DWR, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds. 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 six months. 

A further payment of £1 7s was authorised on the account of the late Lt. Harry Harris (see 12^th September 1917) in final settlement of pay and allowances due.

Lt. Harry Harris