Tuesday 13th August 1918

Billets at Cereda and Grumo.

The Battalion was engaged in training and on the rifle range; the Battalion War Diary noted that, “special attention being paid to Company and Platoon in the attack”.

Ptes. Arthur Clark (25966) (see 7^th July), Fred Oldroyd (see 16^th December 1917), Roderick Harmer (see 3^rd May), Jesse Merritt (see 4^th August) and William Robinson (see 28^th July) were appointed (unpaid) Lance Corporal. Pte. Merritt was actually on leave in England.

Pte. Sidney Wood (see 21^st June), who had been wounded in the trench raid on 21^st June, was evacuated to England; the details of his treatment prior to his evacuation are unknown.  

Pte. Robert Frank Smith (25829) (see 6^th February) departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

Pte. Ernest Franklin (25969) (see 26^th July), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was reported as “absent off 2pm parade and remaining absent until seen near his billet at 2.30pm (30 minutes)”; he was ordered to be confined to barracks for 12 days.

Pte. James Robert Ingleson (see 3^rd August 1917), who had been in England since having been wounded in July 1917, was reported “while a patient at Beckett Park Hospital, Leeds, absent without leave from 8pm”.

A payment of £2 12s. 5d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Ernest Smith (29167) (see 17^th April), who had been killed in action in April while serving with 5DWR; the payment would go to his mother, Mary. She would also receive a parcel of her son’s personal effects, comprising of “letters, photos, religious book”.