Saturday 3rd August 1918

Billets at Cereda and Grumo.

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

Pte. Tom Midgley (see 28^th October 1917) was reported by Sgt. Harry Holmes MM (see 17^th May) as having “dirty and untidy kit on CO’s hut inspection”; on the orders of Capt. James Watson Paterson (see 2^nd August) he would be confined to barracks for seven days.

Ptes. Harry Bailey (25198) (see 20^th June), Jack Edgar Hall (see 27^th November 1917) and George Lownsborough (see 31^st May) departed on seven days’ leave to Lake Garda.

Pte. Harry Briggs (19286) (see 27^th November 1917), serving with 5^th Army School of Mortars, was posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

A/Cpl. Rowland Firby (see 11^th July), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was reprimanded for having been ‘improperly dressed’ while out of camp.

Following the recent exchange of correspondence Maj. Harry Robert Hildyard (see 20^th July) reported to Northern Command Depot at Ripon to undertake one month’s training in Assistant Provost duties.