Sunday 21st July 1918

Front line trenches north-west of Mount Kaberlaba.

Pte. Norman Greenwood (17998) (see 10^th July) was reported by CQMS Hubert Charles Hoyle (see 5^th May) for “damaging by neglect one khaki drill tunic”; on the orders of Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 13^th June) he was to pay for the damaged tunic.

2Lt. Keith Sagar Bain (see 6^th July) and Ptes. William Belcher (see 5^th October 1917), John Bundy (see 7^th January), Ernest Reeve (25923) (see 27^th March), Albert Smith (25953) (see 29^th October 1917)  and Joseph Wilkinson (see 26th March) departed on two weeks’ leave to England.

Pte. Edward Henry Chant (see 29^th October 1917) was admitted to 9^th Casualty Clearing Station, suffering from pleurisy.

Just four days after re-joining the Battalion, Pte. Reginald Dayson (see 9^th July) was re-admitted to hospital, again suffering from diarrhoea; on this occasion he was admitted via South Midland Field Ambulance to 39^th Casualty Clearing Station.

Pte. James William Kershaw MM (see 17^th December 1917) was admitted via South Midland Field Ambulance and 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to Cremona.