Wednesday 12th June 1918

Billetted in huts at Granezza.

2Lt. Keith Sagar Bain (see 9^th May) was admitted via 70^th Field Ambulance to 9^th Casualty Clearing Station, suffering from influenza; he would be discharged to duty after four days.

The War Office wrote to confirm that the application by Lt. Cyril William Wildy (see 10^th May) for transfer to the Signal Service, Royal Engineers had been approved; it was requested that he should be posted to England about 7^th July in order to join an officer training class at the Signal Service Training Centre in Bedford.

Pte. John Walter Gethen (see 1^st June), serving with 69^th Trench Mortar Battery, was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 24^th Casualty Clearing Station to 11^th General Hospital in Genoa; he was suffering from “I.C.T.” (Inflammation of the connective tissue) in both legs.

Pte. James Stott (see 1^st June) was transferred from 57^th General Hospital in Marseilles to 16^th Convalescent Depot, also in Marseilles; he had been suffering from myalgia.

Lt. Col. Sydney Hayne (see 25^th January), commanding 7^th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, left the battalion to take over command of 2^nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment.

Trooper Claude Darwin (see 31^st May), serving in Egypt with 1^st Field Squadron, Engineers, Anzac Mounted Division, was discharged to duty from a rest camp at Moascar and posted to “1FSE”. He was the brother of Tunstill recruit, Pte. Tom Darwin (see 2^nd February), who had been discharged from the army.

Pte. Ernest Thorn (see 20^th May), who had been in hospital in France for three weeks, suffering from a right inguinal hernia, while serving in France with 1^st/7^th DWR, was evacuated to England. On arrival he would be admitted to Keighley War Hospital.

Pte. Charles Edward Berry (see 27^th January), who had been in England since January after suffering from severe haemorrhoids, was posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

Pte. John Killerby (see 11^th December 1917), who had been in the UK since suffering shrapnel wounds to his left arm and shoulder, including a fractured scapula, in December 1917, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields. 

Pte. James Matthew Willey (see 5^th July 1917) was officially discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds suffered in action. In the absence of his surviving service record it has not been possible to establish any detail about the date or circumstances of his having been wounded.

The father of L.Cpl. Norman Wright (see 12th June), who had been reported wounded and missing since September 1917, wrote to the War Office, requesting the return of  three “soldiers letters” which he had forwarded to them three months’ previously; he also requested that they inform him of the address of the family of the late Lt. Joseph Crocker (see 14^th January), who had been killed in the same action in which L.Cpl. Wright had been reported missing. The War Office replied that they were unable to release any such address but would pass on any correspondence to Lt. Crocker’s family.

A payment of £11 1s. 5d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Albert Armitage (see 28^th March), who had died of wounds on 28^th March; the payment would go to his mother, Charlotte. She would also receive a parcel of his personal effects, comprising of, “disc, letters, photos, religious book, knife, two pocket cases, coin (1d.)”,

A pension award was made in the case of the Pte. George Bentley (see 16^th October 1917), who had been officially missing in action since 16^th October 1917; his widow, Daisy, was awarded 29s. 7d. per week for herself and her three children.