Saturday 21st September 1918

Beregana Camp, south-east of Thiene.

Pte. Joseph Hadley (see 28^th August) was reported by Pte. Solomon Richard Webb (see 25^th December 1917; it is not known when he had been promoted) as having been “absent from a working party from 2pm until reporting at 9pm”; on the orders of Capt. Leonard Norman Phillips MC (see 30^th July) he would undergo seven days’ Field Punishment no.1.

Ptes. Ernest Ashness (see 31^st July) and John Griffiths (see 17^th June) departed on seven days’ leave to Lake Garda.

Pte. Vernon Barker (see 5^th September) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance to 23^rd Division Rest Station, suffering from diarrhoea; he would be discharged and re-join the Battalion after five days.

Pte. Ernest Normanton was admitted via 71^st Field Ambulance and 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 51^st Stationary Hospital; he was suffering from ‘venereal disease – not yet diagnosed’. He was an original member of the Battalion but, in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man.

Cpl. Thomas Henry Cox (9328) (see 26^th August) was transferred from 11^th General Hospital in Genoa to 81^st General Hospital in Marseilles.
CQMS Maurice Harcourt Denham (see 15^th September), who had been discharged to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano a week previously, was re-admitted 38^th Stationary Hospital in Genoa; he was now suffering from influenza.

CQMS Maurice Harcourt Denham

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Pte. Edwin Dawson (see 29^th August) was posted back to France from 14DWR at Clacton; after arriving at Etaples he would join 9DWR.

L.Cpl. Joseph Simpson (see 19^th November 1917), serving in England with 14^th Training Reserve Battalion at Welbeck, was reported on three disciplinary charges: “I. Absent off tattoo until seen by the Military Police at Broad Lane about 12.30am on 22^nd – 2hrs. 30mins.; II. Irregular conduct; viz. being in possession of L.Cpl. Booth’s pass; III. Improperly dressed; viz. wearing a private soldier’s coat with staff buttons”; he would be reprimanded but face no further action.