Thursday 26th September 1918

Beregana Camp, south-east of Thiene.

Starting out at 7pm, the Battalion marched thirteen miles south, via Villaverla and Costabissara, to billets in Creazzo.

Lt. John William Headings (see 15^th June 1917), the Battalion Quartermaster, was injured in an accident, as described in Headings’ own statement:  “At Creazzo about 9.30pm on 26^th Sept. on the road near to the transport lines. It was dark and the road narrow. To avoid one of our limbers proceeding in the opposite direction, I sidestepped and was thrown into a deep gully at the roadside, the weight of my body being thrown onto the left knee”. A statement was also taken from Rev. E G Selwyn, Chaplain attached to 8Yorks (the statement was taken by the acting adjutant, 2Lt. Cyril Edward Agar, see 27^th July): “On the night of Thursday Sept 26^th 1918 I was walking two paces behind Lt. Headings along the narrow lane leading to the village. A limber was coming up from the opposite direction and there was no room to pass in the road. Seeing what looked like a shallow gutter on the right side of the road, Lt. Headings stepped with his right foot into it; but the gulley was far deeper and wider than could be seen in that light, and, with his right foot finding no hold, he came down heavily on his left knee on the edge of the gulley”. Lt. Headings was admitted via one of the local Casualty Clearing Stations to 11^th General Hospital in Genoa.

Pte. Edwin Baldwin (see 7^th September), serving in France with the Motor Transport Section of the Army Service Corps, was ordered to be confined to barracks for ten days having been one day late in reporting back from leave to England.

Pte.  Arthur Wood (29040) (see 27^th July), who had been posted back to England from 5DWR, was posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon, but would have one weeks’ leave before reporting for duty.