Saturday 6th July 1918

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

2Lt. Keith Sagar Bain (see 12^th June) departed on one week’s leave to Lake Garda.

Pte. Frank Patterson (see 30^th June), who had suffered minor wounds a week previously, was discharged from 29^th Casualty Clearing Station and re-joined the Battalion.

Pte. William Hewitt (25172) (see 21^st June), who had suffered shrapnel wounds to his right hand on 21^st June, was transferred from 11^th General Hospital in Genoa to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano.

Pte. Owen Frank Hyde (see 17^th June) was transferred from the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Sam Tinkler (see 14^th May 1917) serving in France with 54^th Company, Labour Corps, was admitted to hospital suffering from “P.U.O” (pyrexia, or high temperature, of unknown origin).

Pte. George Herbert Lant (see 23^rd September 1917), who had been in England since having been wounded in September 1917, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. Fred Smith (15149) (see 15^th May), who had been in England since having been wounded in December 1917, was posted from Northern Command Depot at Ripon to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. Henry Charles Lindsay (see 21^st April), who had in England since having been wounded in April while serving in France with 2DWR, was posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

The former Battalion Chaplain, Rev. Wilfred Leveson Henderson MC (see 26^th March), who had been severely wounded in the attack on the Messines Ridge on 7^th June, formally relinquished his commission on grounds of ill health.

Pte. Joseph Leonard Holmes (see 8^th May), who had been posted back to England as being “unfit for military service having been an inmate of an asylum” was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for military service due to ‘neurasthenia’ (shellshock); he was awarded a pension of 27s. 6d. per week for four weeks, reducing thereafter to 13s. 9d. and to be reviewed in six months’ time.