Wednesday 24th July 1918

Billets at San Fortunato, just south of Fara.

With the weather now blisteringly hot, the Battalion’s march was again delayed until the cooler conditions of the evening. Starting out at 8pm they marched six miles south west to Bergana Camp, one mile south of Thiene, arriving there at 11.45pm.

Pte. Joseph Henry Haywood (see 7^th May) was reported by Sgts. Percy James Dawson (see 5^th July 1916; it is not known when he had been promoted) and James Robinson (see 22^nd April) as being “absent off 9am parade”; on the orders of Capt. James Watson Paterson (see 15^th June) he was to be confined to barracks for seven days.

Cpl. James Hotchkiss (see 18^th July) was discharged from 39^th Casualty Clearing Station and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Vernon Barker (see 16^th July) was discharged from 24^th Casualty Clearing Station and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.
Pte. Tom Feather MM (see 16^th August 1917) died of wounds; he had been wounded while serving in France with 5DWR and would be buried at Sezanne Communal Cemetery, east of Paris. In the absence of a surviving service record it has not been possible to establish when, or under what circumstances, he had left 10DWR.

Lt. Cyril William Wildy (see 21^st June), who had been accepted for transfer to the Signal Service, Royal Engineers was posted to England to join an officer training class at the Signal Service Training Centre in Bedford. Prior to his departure he had spent some time (details unknown) with 23^rd Division Signal Company.

CSM Edward George John Cooke (see 15^th March), serving with 3DWR, was posted back to France; he was originally to have re-joined 10DWR but would instead remain at 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples, awaiting posting.

A payment of £13 13s. 9d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Harold Dale (see 11^th April) who had been killed in action on 11^th April; the payment would be divided equally (in shares of £2 5s. 8d.) between his mother, Mary; two brothers, William and George; two unmarried sisters, Martha and Lily; and married sister, Edith Ackroyd. His mother would also receive his identity disc, which was the only surviving item of personal property.

A further payment of 3s. 7d. was made in respect of the pay and allowances due to the late Pte. Arthur Hird (see 1^st April), who had died of wounds on 22^nd September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Margaret.