Wednesday 10th July 1918

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

L.Cpl. Smith Hesselden (see 30^th June), who had suffered severe wounds to his back and to both thighs ten days’ previously, died of his wounds at 39^th Casualty Clearing Station. An operation had been admitted but the surgeon, Maj. Percy John Chissell had reported, “large fragments of bone removed from right thigh under novocaine; patient had other multiple wounds to kidney, spleen and chest and was too ill to operate upon”. L.Cpl. Hesselden would be buried at the nearby Cavalletto British Cemetery.

Pte. Norman Greenwood (see 24^th July 1917) was reported by L.Sgt. Jonathan Richardson Sunderland (see 23^rd March) and Acting CSM Frank Shelah Gilleard (see 25th May) as having “dirty rifle on 9am parade”; on the orders of Capt. James Watson Paterson (see 15^th June) he was to be confined to barracks for three days.

Pte. William Barber (see 1^st June) was ordered to undergo seven days’ Field Punishment no.2; the nature of his offence is unknown. 

Pte. James Stott (see 30^th June) was discharged from 16^th Convalescent Depot in Marseilles and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Frank William Rabjohn (see 18^th February), serving a two year sentence at no.1 Military Prison at Rouen, was admitted to 10^th General Hospital at Rouen, suffering from influenza; he would discharged and return to prion after two days.


Cpl. John Henry Crawshaw (see 16^th June), serving at Northern Command Depot at Ripon, was placed in detention having been reported for ‘conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline’ (details unspecified).

A/RSM Harry Dewhirst (see 24^th May), formerly of 10DWR, serving with the Military Provost Staff Corps, was posted as CSM to the Prisoner of War Camp at Brocton, Staffs..

Lt. Stanley Currington (see 1^st July 1917), who had been wounded in October 1916, resigned his commission with DWR having been appointed to a post as Lieutenant with the RAF.

Pte. Claude Prosser (see 6^th May), who had had his left arm amputated having been wounded on 7^th June 1917, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service. He was awarded a pension of 27s. 6d. per week.

A payment of £4 5s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Herbert Ridley (see 27^th March) who had been killed in action on 27^th March while serving in France with 5DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Ellen. She would also receive a parcel of his personal effects comprising of, “2 letters, photos, 2 registered envelopes (unused)”.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Cpl. Arthur Boorman (see 28^th May 1918), who had died in February 1918; his widow, Edith, was awarded £1 1s. 8d. per week.