Friday 2nd August 1918

Billets at Cereda and Grumo.

The Battalion was engaged in training and on the rifle range.

Pte. Jonas Yoxall (see 25^th June) was reported as having been drunk on duty; on the orders of Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 1^st August) he would undergo 14 days’ Field Punishment no.1.

Pte. Herbert John Wicks (see 27^th November 1917) was reported by L.Sgt. Jonathan Richardson Sunderland (see 10^th July) as having “dirty small arms ammunition on 6pm guard mounting parade”; he was ordered by Capt. James Watson Paterson (see 24^th July) to serve one extra guard duty.

Pte. William Barber (see 10^th July) was ordered to undergo five days’ Field Punishment no.1 and to forfeit one days’ pay, on account of ‘absence’; the nature of his absence is unknown.

Pte. William Hutchinson (see 14^th July), who had been on leave, failed to report on time at Waterloo Station for his return journey to France; he would be reported as “absent off leave” until reporting at Southampton at about 2.30am on 6^th August.

Pte. Edgar Baron (see 17^th June) was transferred from to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albaro, near Genoa to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Thomas Caton (see 18^th December 1917), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was reported for “quitting his fatigues without permission”; he would be confined to barracks for three days.

Pte. John Henry Crawshaw (see 20^th July), serving at Northern Command Depot at Ripon, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. William Hartley (see 24^th June 1917), who had been transferred to the Labour Corps more than a year previously, was formally discharged from the Army, on account of illness; he was assessed as having suffered a 30% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 15s. per week.

A payment of £13 was authorised, being the part of the amount due in pay and allowances to L.Cpl. Walter Maynard Willis (see 15^th May), who had been discharged from the Army having been committed to an asylum in April; the payment would go to his wife, Jeannie.