Sunday 4th August 1918

Billets at Cereda and Grumo.

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

Pte. Daniel Mackenzie (see 7^th March) was reported by Cpl. Thomas Henry Cox (9328) (see 29^th October 1917) and L.Sgt. Jonathan Richardson Sunderland (see 2^nd August) for being “absent off Church Parade until found in billets at 7.20am”; on the orders of Capt. James Watson Paterson (see 3^rd August) he was to be confined to barracks for seven days.

Pte. Robert Fiedler (see 16^th January 1917) was reported by 2Lt. Sam Benjamin Farrant (see 9^th October 1917), for ‘causing a disturbance in billets’; on the orders of Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 2^nd August) he was to be deprived of seven days’ pay.

Pte. Edwin Kenyon (see 7^th June) was reported by Cpl. Sidney Twine (see 21^st March) and Sgt. John William Wardman DCM, MM (see 13th July) for ‘insolence to an NCO’; on the orders of Maj. Borrow he was to be deprived of seven days’ pay.

L.Cpl. Benjamin Tetley (see 24^th April) and Ptes. John William Addison (see 23^rd December 1916), Wellington Baldwin (see 21^st June), Francis James Barnes (see 22^nd November 1917), Joseph Barnes (see 11^th July), Andrew Davidson (see 13^th February), Ernest William Gilbert (see 29^th October 1917), Jesse Merritt (see 27^th March), Frederick Thomas Peart (see 21^st March), Abraham Sunderland (see 29^th June) and Frank Tucker (see 11^th July) departed on two weeks’ leave to England.

Pte. Ernest Locker Smith (see 4^th July), who was in England having been wounded in April, was posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.