Sunday 18th August 1918

In camp near Mount Brusabo.

Starting from 3.15am, the Battalion moved into front line positions relieving 2^nd Royal Warwickshires. The Battalion was now in the left division, right brigade, right sector, in positions running from south of Roncalto to just north of the road junction known as Pelly Cross . One Company was stationed in the outpost line, two Companies in the front line and one Company in close support.

Cpl. George Alfred Giles (see 11^th September 1917) was appointed Acting CQMS ‘C’ Company, in place of CQMS Maurice Harcourt Denham (see 11^th August), who had been injured in an accident a week previously.

Sgt. Albert Hoggarth (see 23^rd July); L.Cpls. Martin Reddington (see 13^th July), Clarence Smith (see 24^th April) and Bertie Thurling (see 6^th August) and Ptes. William Henry Cleaver (see 20^th June), Frank Dunn (see 11^th July), Robert Fiedler (see 4^th August), Fred Heap (see 20^th July), Leonard Hurley (see 13^th August 1917), Arthur Leeming (see 12^th May 1917), Albert Mellor (see 5^th October 1917), Joseph Barber Taylor (see 1^st April) and Arthur Wood (29524) (see 5^th January) departed on two weeks’ leave to England;

Capt. Robert Stewart Skinner Ingram (see 1^st March), who had been one of the original officers of Tunstill’s Company, but was now serving with the RAF, was taken prisoner after the aircraft he was flying was forced down near Ostende. Capt. Ingram, along with his observer, 2Lt. A.W. Wyncoll, had been on a bombing raid when their aircraft had been engaged by enemy aircraft and hit by flak; the damaged machine was seen going down fast near Ostende at 1553 hrs. Capt. Ingram would be imprisoned at Rastatt Camp in Baden.