Sunday 28th July 1918

Billets at Cereda and Grumo.

The Battalion was engaged in training and on the rifle range.

Pte. Willie Davenport Frame (see 21^st October 1917) was reported by Sgts. Wilfred Fletcher (see 17^th March) and Frank Brierley (see 23^rd July) for “not complying with an order; ie not going to bed when ordered to do so”; on the orders of Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 20^th July), he was to undergo seven days’ Field Punishment no.1.

Pte. William Shirtcliffe Mallinson (see 16^th December 1917) was reported by L.Cpl. William Arthur Hutchinson (see 29^th October 1917) and Pte. Willie Cowgill (see 18^th October 1917) as having been absent from his billet between 10.30pm and 11.05pm; on the orders of Capt. John Edward Lennard Payne MC (see 21^st June) he was to be confined to barracks for seven days.

Pte. Frank Easterby (see 8th July) re-joined the Battalion from the Reinforcement Camp at Arquata Scrivia.

Sgt. Charles Marsden (see 22^nd July), L.Cpl. Louis Feather MM (see 21^st December 1917) and Ptes. Francis Barrett (see 11^th June), John Thomas Damant (see 27^th March), John Gayton (see 16^th November 1917), James Grubb (see 10^th June), William Gordon Johnston (see 7^th May), William Robinson (see 11^th January 1917) and Robert Frank Smith (25829) (see 6^th February) departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

Pte. Harry Duthoit (see 7^th October 1915) was admitted via South Midland Field Ambulance to 39^th Casualty Clearing Station, suffering from “I.C.T.” (inflammation of the connective tissue) to his left foot; he would be discharged and re-join the Battalion after ten days.