Thursday 25th July 1918

Bergana Camp, south of Thiene.

Another evening march, this time commencing at 7pm, took the Battalion 13 miles further south west, via Molina, Malo and Priabona to billets at Cereda and Grumo, just south of Cornedo where they had been billeted in the Spring. They arrived at 2am on the 26^th; two companies would be billeted at Cereda and two at Grumo.

2Lts. Vincent Edwards MC (see 3^rd June) and Andrew Aaron Jackson (see 21^st June) were promoted Lieutenant.

Pte. Joseph Blackburn (29722) (see 8^th March 1917) was awarded 14 days’ Field Punishment no.1; the nature of his offence is unknown.

Pte. Harry Beaumont (29306) (see 30^th October 1917) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 24^th Casualty Clearing Station to 23^rd Division Rest Station; he was suffering from “I.C.T.” (inflammation of the connective tissue) to his neck.

Pte. Ernest Taylor (29168) (see 7^th July), serving in France with 1^st/6^th DWR, was severely wounded in action; he suffered wounds to his back, forehead and neck and would be admitted to 3^rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station at Esquelbecq, north-west of Poperinghe.

Pte. John Edward Bartle MM (see 20^th December 1917), serving in France with 2^nd/4^th DWR, was wounded in action; he suffered wounds to his right arm as a result of which he would be evacuated to England.

2Lt. Leopold Henry Burrow (see 23^rd June 1918), serving at no.14 Convalescent Depot at Trouville, was promoted Lieutenant.

2Lt. Thomas Arnold Woodcock (see 6^th February), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was promoted Lieutenant.

Pte. Herbert Burgess (see 19^th June), serving in England with 29^th Durham Light Infantry, was transferred to the Royal Engineers and posted to Gosport.

A note added to file at the War Office in relation to 2Lt. Frederick Millward MC (see 18^th July), who had been severely injured during a trench raid carried out in November 1916 and had had his right leg amputated above the knee, indicated that, “this officer has been admitted to Dover House for the purpose of being fitted with an artificial limb”. ‘Dover House’ refers to Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospital, Dover House, Putney Park Lane, Roehampton; the property had been donated by the American financier J.P. Morgan for use as a hospital for limbless officers.

The former Battalion Chaplain, Rev. Wilfred Leveson Henderson MC (see 6^th July), who had been severely wounded in the attack on the Messines Ridge on 7^th June, appeared before an Army Medical Board assembled at Fort Matilda, Greenock. The Board found that, “This officer is still suffering from the effects of the wounds to both thighs with comminuted fracture of left femur received on active service in France on 7^th June 1917. There is a 2 ½ inch shortening of the left leg – the result of the compound, comminuted fracture of the left femur. The right sciatic nerve was also injured. This officer complains of pain over the region of this nerve, walks lame and at a slow pace. He wears a surgical boot with a raised heel”. He was declared permanently unfit for any further service, having already relinquished his commission. Rev. Henderson would take up a post as Rector of Christ Church Lanark.

Rev. Wilfred Leveson Henderson MC

Image by kind permission of Rev. Drew Sheridan

A payment of £14 3s. 10d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Arthur Frederick Boulton (see 18^th October 1917) who had been killed in action on 18^th October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Arthur.


An increase was authorised in the pension award made in the case of the late Pte. Richard Field (see 3^rd December 1917), who had been killed in May 1917; his widow, Minnie, was to be paid £1 11s. 3d. per week in place of the 18s. 9d. she had received hitherto.