Monday 30th September 1918

Billets in Creazzo.

Training continued.

Pte. Samuel Smith (see 22^nd September) re-joined the Battalion from 23^rd Division Rest Station, following treatment for scabies.

Pte. Francis Titcombe (see 26^th August), who had been wounded on 26^th August, was evacuated to England; he would be admitted to Queen Mary’s Military Hospital, Whalley, Lancs.

Cpl. Stephen Grady (see 24^th June), serving with 69^th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, was reprimanded having been reported “absent from 9pm tattoo roll call until 11.20pm same day”.

Cpl. William Frederick Ackrill (see 10^th September), serving in France with 2DWR, suffered an accidental injury to his left knee; he would be admitted via 12^th Field Ambulance to 23^rd Casualty Clearing Station.

Pte. George Albert Wright (see 30^th July), serving with 148^th Labour Company Labour Corps, departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

L.Cpl. Ernest Gee (see 29^th June), serving in France with 2DWR, was discharged from 13^th Convalescent Depot at Etaples, following treatment for influenza, and was posted to ‘F’ Infantry Base Depot, also at Etaples.

Pte. Stanley Barker (see 15^th September), who was home on leave, was admitted to Bradford War Hospital, suffering from scabies.

A medical report on Cpl. William Foulds (see 4^th September), who had been at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, for the previous three weeks, stated that, “General condition fairly good; neck condition doing well; recommednded Auxiliary Hospital for one month and disposal”.

Pte. John Beaumont (see 23^rd June), who was home on leave from the Motor Transport Section of the Army Service Corps in France, was admitted to Southport Infirmary, suffering from boils to his right arm.

Lt. Stanley Currington (see 10^th July), serving with the RAF, was promoted Acting Captain.

2Lt. Arthur Kilburn Robinson (see 26^th March), serving with the York and Lancaster Regiment, was transferred to the RAF to serve as an Observer.

A.M. James Linfoot (see 11^th May), serving in England with the RAF, was promoted Air Mechanic, Class 2.

A payment of £12 10s. 1d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Jacob Osborne (see 24^th May), who had died of wounds in May; the payment would go to his father, Edward Jacob.

Casualties for the month were officially recorded as being:

Killed                                 1

Accidentally killed           0

Died of wounds               2

Wounded                          9

Accidentally wounded    0

Missing                              0

The official cumulative casualty figures since arriving in France in August 1915 were thus:

Killed                                   280

Accidentally killed                5

Died of wounds                  23

Wounded                       1,377

Accidentally wounded      53

Missing                               189