Saturday 10th August 1918

Billets at Cereda and Grumo.

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

A Divisional Horse Show was held at Trissino; in the words of the Divisional History this afforded, “an opportunity for our Allies to judge what the 23^rd Division could do in this line, and proved an immense success. Officers of both the French and Italian cavalry entered for the open events and Lord Cavan presented the prizes at the end of this very English holiday held in the midst of the vineyards of Northern Italy”.

Pte. William George Ruddock (see 21^st June) departed on seven days’ leave to Lake Garda.

Pte. Richard Metcalfe (see 18^th July), who was on attachment to the Royal Engineers, was ordered to be confined to barracks for two days; the nature of his offence is unknown.

Pte. Arthur Walton (see 19^th July) was transferred from 57^th General Hospital in Marseilles to 16^th Convalescent Depot, also in Marseilles.

Pte. John Henry Evison (see 2^nd July) who had been wounded on 21^st June, and had been treated at 57^th General Hospital in Marseilles, was evacuated to England aboard the Hospital Ship Aberdonian; the details of his treatment in England are unknown.

Sgt. Richard Farrar (see 24^th May), serving at the Regimental Depot in Halifax, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. Walter White (see 24^th June 1917), who had served with 10DWR before being transferred to the Labour Corps, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to illness; the details of his illness are unknown.