Tuesday 4th June 1918

Front line trenches north-west of Mount Kaberlaba.

2Lt. Aidan Nicholson (see 9^th October 1917) left the Battalion, suffering from broncho-pneumonia; the details of his immediate treatment in Italy are unknown.

Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum

Ptes. Harry Bailey (25198) (see 5^th July 1917), William Henry Cleaver (see 29^th October 1917), Thomas Percy Lloyd (see below) and Sidney Stephen West (see below) were admitted via 70^th Field Ambulance to 39^th Casualty Clearing Station, all were suffering from influenza. Ptes. Bailey and Cleaver would be discharged after five days and Pte. West after seven days; all three would be posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia. Pte. Lloyd would remain at 39^th CCS for fourteen days before then being transferred to 24^th Casualty Clearing Station.

Sidney Stephen West was an original member of the Battalion; he was 24 years old and from Keighley. In the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of Thomas Percy Lloyd.

Pte. John William Farrer (see 21^st April), who was detached and serving with a working party at Rocchetto Station, south-east of Verona, was reported as being “unshaven on parade”; he would be confined to barracks for three days.


A pension award was made in the case of the L.Cpl. Sydney Exley (see 18^th May 1918), who had died of wounds on 3^rd December 1917; his father, Albert, was awarded 10s. per week.