Tuesday 23rd July 1918

Huts at Granezza.

Starting out at 4.30am on account of the hot weather, the Battalion marched eight miles south, descending from the plateau, via Sciessere, Campana, Lusiana and Velo to San Fortunato, just south of Fara, where they arrived at 9am. The remainder of the day was spent resting.

Ptes. James Butterworth (see 25^th April) and John Newton (see 25^th May) were reported by Sgt. Frank Brierley (see 7^th May), Cpl. Stanley Vyvyan Golledge (see 26^th May), Pte. William Arthur Birch Machin (see 8^th September 1917) and Pte. Albert Reynolds (see 15^th May) as being “absent from roll call at 9pm until reporting at 9.20pm”; on the orders of Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 21^st July) they were to be confined to barracks for 14 days.

L.Sgt. Albert Hoggarth (see 8^th June) was promoted Sergeant and Lewis Gun Instructor.

Pte. Herbert Crowther Kershaw (see 15^th July), who had suffered an accidental injury eight days’ previously, was discharged from 23^rd Division Rest Station and re-joined the Battalion.

Capt. Hugh William Lester MC (see 25^th April), serving in France as Brigade Major to 11^th Infantry Brigade, departed for England on two weeks’ leave; he would be married the following day, in London, to Marjorie Elizabeth Richie.

2Lt. Conrad Anderson, (see 30^th November 1917), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, appeared before an Army Medical Board assembled at Tynemouth. The Board reported that, “about a year ago he began to complain of undue fatigue on exertion and occasional giddiness” but found that, “This officer has no disability in the opinion of the Board; he is perfectly sound and shows no sign of disease or illness”. He was instructed to re-join his unit.

Following two weeks’ treatment for malaria, Pte. James Wilson (see 12^th July) was discharged from the Military Hospital in Lancaster and posted to 728^th Employment Company, based at Hitchin, Herts..


A pension award was made in the case of the late Sgt. Luke Dawson (see 21^st January 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; his mother, Sarah, was awarded 10s. 6d. per week.

Sgt.Luke Dawson (standing right).

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Henry Percival Widdop (see 3^rd April), who had been killed in action in October 1917; his father, Edwin, was awarded 3s. 6d. per week.