Thursday 22nd August 1918

Front line trenches between Roncalto and Pelly Cross.

In the morning the Battalion was relieved by 8Yorks; the relief was completed by 12noon and the Battalion moved into support positions in the Lemerle Switch line.

Pte. Tom Platts MM (see 17^th December 1917) was wounded, suffering a gunshot wound to the face; he would be admitted via 71^st Field Ambulance and 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 11^th General Hospital in Genoa.

Pte. William Hutchinson (see 16^th August), who had been late reporting back from leave, was awarded 14 days’ Field Punishment no.2 and forfeited four days’ pay.

Pte. Frederick Thorn (see 6^th February), serving as an officer’s servant at XIV Corps reinforcement camp, departed for England on two weeks’ leave. 

Ex-Tunstill’s Man, Dvr. Arthur Overend (see 11^th August), now serving in France with the ASC, was posted from the Army Service Corps Depot in France to join 52^nd Divisional Train.

Sgt. Ellis Rigby (see 18^th June), who had been posted back to England as a candidate for a commission, reported to no.16 Officer Cadet Battalion at Rhyl.

Pte. William Postill Taylor (see 19^th August), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was admitted to Brighton Grove Military Hospital, Newcastle-on-Tyne, suffering from gonorrhoea.

Pte. Michael Henry Rourke (see 8^th August), who had been wounded in June 1917, was formally discharged from the Army due to his wounds; he was assessed as having a 70% disability and was awarded a pension of 28s. per week which was to be reviewed in six months.

Annie Odell Dawson, wife of L.Cpl. William Neville Dawson (see 17^th July 1917), who was now serving with 16^th (Transport Workers) Battalion York and Lancasters, died at the South London Hospital for Women, Clapham Common; she was just 31 years old. She was the older sister of 2Lt. Maurice Tribe MC (see 23^rd December 1916), who had been severely injured at Le Sars in October 1916.