Friday 9th August 1918

Billets at Cereda and Grumo.

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

Pte. James Edward Hollingworth (see 30^th April) was reported for “not complying with battalion orders; ie wearing service cap instead of own helmet at 5.55pm”; on the orders of Capt. Dick Bolton MC (see 7^th August) he was to be confined to barracks for three days.

Pte. Claude Wilfred Norman (see 25^th April) was admitted via 71^st Field Ambulance and 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 23^rd Division Rest Station; he was suffering from “I.C.T. - general” (Inflammation of the connective tissue).

Pte. Joseph Hadley (see 14^th July), who was on leave in England, was reported absent from 4pm having failed to report on time at Waterloo Station to return to Italy. He would report three days later and be despatched to Italy.

Pte. Reginald James Nosworthy (see 16^th July) was transferred back to 38^th Stationary Hospital in Genoa from the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano; he was suffering from tonsilitis.

Pte. John Chadwick Taylor (see 18^th July), who had been wounded on 18^th July, was transferred from 29^th Stationary Hospital in Cremona to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano.

Pte. John Walter Gethen (see 13^th July), was discharged from the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Ernest Thorn (see 12^th June) was discharged from Keighley War Hospital following treatment for an inguinal hernia; he would have one week’s leave before reporting to the Regimental Depot in Halifax.