Tuesday 20th August 1918

Front line trenches between Roncalto and Pelly Cross.

Pte. Jonas Yoxall (see 2^nd August) was wounded, suffering shrapnel wounds to his forehead; he would be admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance to 39^th Casualty Clearing Station, where his wound would be ‘excised and sutured’, before being evacuated to 11^th General Hospital at Genoa.

Ptes. Thomas Butler (see 5^th July), Thomas Henry Fearn (see 10^th June), Herbert Jacklin (see 20^th July) and Sidney Powdrill (see 18^th July) re-joined the Battalion from the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia. 

Pte. Reginald Dayson (see 14^th August), serving at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia, was reported as being “absent without leave from roll call 6.15am until 4pm”; he was ordered to forfeit one days’ pay and to be confined to barracks for one day.

Pte. Richard Metcalfe (see 10^th August), who was at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia having been on attachment to the Royal Engineers, was reported as being “absent without leave from roll call 6.15am until apprehended by regimental police at Toreglia at 10.15pm”; he was ordered to forfeit one days’ pay and to be confined to barracks for seven days.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Sgt. George Thomas Bates (see 18^th June 1918), who had died of wounds in November 1917 while serving with 32^nd Company, Labour Corps; his widow, Emily, was awarded 16s. 3d. per week.