Wednesday 14th August 1918

Billets at Cereda and Grumo.

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

In the evening the Battalion marched 15 miles north west via Cereda, Priabona and Malo to Beregana Camp, south-east of Thiene. 

Pte. William Harper (25972) (see 21^st June) was admitted via 70^th Field Ambulance to 9^th Casualty Clearing Station, suffering from diarrohea.

Pte. William Hewitt (25172) (see 6^th July), who had suffered shrapnel wounds to his right hand during the trench raid on 21^st June, was transferred from the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Following treatment for diarrhoea, Pte. Reginald Dayson (see 21^st July) was discharged from 39^th Casualty Clearing Station and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. John Walter Gethen (see 9^th August), serving at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia, was admitted via 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia; he was suffering from venereal disease.

A ceremony was held at the ‘Theatre Deluxe’ in the village of Horden for the presentation of the Military Medal to Pte. Thomas Robinson (16490) MM (see 24^th November 1917) who was home on leave (details unknown). The medal was presented “in a most amiable manner” by Capt. Glossop, who was “in charge of the soldiers training near our village”. Pte. Robinson would also be presented with a gold watch by the inhabitants of the village.

Pte. Thomas Robinson MM, seated.

Image by kind permission of Gary Robinson.

Image by kind permission of Gary Robinson

Pte. Walter Ralph (see 10^th May), who had been in England since having wounded in action while serving with 1^st/5^th York and Lancasters, was granted two weeks’ leave before joining 3^rd Battalion York and Lancasters; he was the elder brother of Pte. Kit Ralph (see 30^th April 1917) who had been killed at Le Sars in October 1916.

2Lt. Aidan Nicholson (see 3^rd July), who had been in England for a month after suffering from broncho-pneumonia, wrote to the War Office, asking “if I am entitled to any gratuity in consideration of my recent illness. I have been invalided home on account of broncho pneumonia which I contracted on active service due to exposure to wet and cold. I am at present on sick leave  and have been given one month’s Home Service” .

Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum