Sunday 11th August 1918

Billets at Cereda and Grumo.

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

Sgt. James Henry Howarth (see 29^th July) and Ptes. Ben Butler (see 13^th December 1917), Fred Hargreaves (29267) (see 18^th December 1917), Willie Holmes (see 10^th June), John William Holroyd (see 11^th January 1917), Harry Leaper (see 10^th July 1917), Walter Limmer (see 10^th July 1916), Thomas Edward Sear (see 23^rd June) and John Starling (see 27^th March) departed on two weeks’ leave to England.

Pte. Fred Hargreaves (29267)

Image by kind permission of Patrick Hargreaves

Pte. Edwin Haley (see 24^th April) was reported by Cpl. Mark Butler (see 7^th August) and CSM Ernest James Odell; (see 25^th May) as “absent off 7am parade”; on the orders of Capt. Dick Bolton MC (see 9^th August) he was to be confined to barracks for four days.

At 8.30pm an accident occurred which resulted in CQMS Maurice Harcourt Denham (see 31^st July) suffering minor facial injuries. The incident was described by CQMS Edgar Shuttleworth (see 28^th April): “About 8.30pm I was returning from Arzignano in a trap along with RQMS Frank Stephenson (see 5^th January; it is not known exactly when he had been promoted RQMS), CQMS Denham and Sgt. Harry Smith (12240) (see 12th May) when a wheel came off the vehicle and we were all thrown into the road. We were travelling at a moderate speed when this occurred. CQMS Denham was found to be cut about the face and bruised at the knees. RQMS Stephenson accompanied him to the 69^th Field Ambulance where he was detained. All members of the party were sober”. A similar report was also submitted by RQMS Stephenson. Both reports would be verified by Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 8^th August). Denham would be transferred from 69^th Field Ambulance to 24^th Casualty Clearing Station for further treatment.

CQMS Maurice Harcourt Denham

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Ex-Tunstill’s Man, Dvr. Arthur Overend (see 28^th January), now serving in France with the ASC, and attached to 57^th Division, was posted to the Army Service Corps Depot in France.

L.Cpl. Walter Maynard Willis (see 2^nd August), who had been discharged from the Army after being committed to an asylum in April, died at the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Menston; his cause of death was stated as being, “general paralysis of the insane; long duration”. He would be buried at Scholemoor Cemetery, Bradford.