Wednesday 3rd July 1918

Support positions near Mount Torle.

Work with the Royal Engineers continued.

Pte. Arthur Walton (see 12^th May) suffered contusions to his neck and back in an accident (details unknown) whilst on duty; he would be admitted via 70^th Field Ambulance and 24^th Casualty Clearing Station to 11^th General Hospital in Genoa.

Pte. George Towler Brown (see 22^nd June) re-joined the Battalion from 48^th Division Rest Station.

2Lt. Aidan Nicholson (see 4^th June), who had left the Battalion a month previously, suffering from broncho-pneumonia, was evacuated to England from Le Havre onboard the Hospital Ship Gilford Castle. He would be examined by a Medical Board in Worsley, Manchester, four days later and awarded one months’ sick leave.

Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum

Pte. John Stenson (see 26^th September 1917) was discharged from 5^th Northern General Hospital in Leicester; he would have one week’s sick leave before reporting to the Regimental Depot in Halifax.