Friday 5th July 1918

In huts and tents at Club Camp, west of Granezza.

Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 30^th March) re-joined the Battalion after spending three months away on a senior officer’s training course. It would appear that shortly after returning he would be photographed alongside a large, unexploded Austrian shell; the photograph being kept in an album collated by Capt. Dick Bolton MC (see 17^th June). Two other photographs from the album may have been taken at around the same time. These feature 2Lt. Edwin Everingham Ison (see 16^th March)  and the Battalion Chaplain, Rev. Hugh Wilfrid Todd (see 19^th March). (Images by kind permission of Henry Bolton).

Bolton (seated left), Ison (standing), Todd (seated centre); I am unable to identify the fourth officer.

Ison (left) and Bolton

Pte. Thomas Butler (see 7^th June), who had been treated for influenza, was discharged from 29^th Stationary Hospital in Cremona and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. William Carver (see 14^th January), serving with 273^rd Employment Company at GHQ, Italy, departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

Pte. Selwyn Stansfield (see 5th April), serving in France with 1^st/5^th DWR, was transferred to 1^st/6^th DWR.

Pte. George Carter (see 26^th June) was posted from ‘F’ Infantry Base Depot at Etaples to join 1^st/6^th DWR.

Pte. Dennis Waller (see 3^rd June), who had been serving in France with 2^nd/4^th DWR, was discharged from hospital, following treatment for an ear infection, and posted to 2DWR.

Pte. Albert John Start (see 8^th September 1917), serving in France with 791^st Area Employment Company, Labour Corps, was admitted to 2^nd Stationary Hospital at Abbeville suffering from general debility.


L.Cpl. James Barker (12288) (see 17^th May), who had been in England since having been wounded in March while serving in France with 2DWR, was formally transferred to 2^nd Reserve Battalion Machine Gun Corps, based at Belton Park, Grantham.

Sgt. John Edward King (see 14^th May 1917), who had been serving with the Labour Corps, was discharged from the Army; the reason for his discharge is unknown, although he was 44 years old.

At home in Falkirk 10 year-old Mary Barker died; her cause of death was given as “cardiac disease”. She was the daughter of Pte. James Barker (25964) (see 29^th October 1917).

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. John Crossley (see 21^st May), who had died on 21^st December 1917; his married sister, Ada Robinson, was to be the beneficiary and, in lieu of a pension, she was awarded a gratuity of £28 16s. 4d.