Thursday 5th September 1918

In Brigade reserve in huts near Monte Pau.

Ptes. Vernon Barker (see 16^th July), Edgar Baron (see 2^nd August), Herbert Bibby (see 7^th August), Edward Henry Chant (see 28^th August), Fred Clayton (see 9^th June), Ernest George Denyer (see 20^th May), Owen Frank Hyde (see 6^th July), William Ryan (see 1^st July) and Albert Edward White (see 6^th August) re-joined the Battalion from the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Charles Knight (see 4^th July), who had been on attachment to a working party at Rocchetto Station, re-joined the Battalion.

Pte. Frank Tucker (see 24^th August), who was late returning from leave to England, re-joined the Battalion. Evidence of his late return would be taken from Cpl. Mark Butler (see 11^th August), A/Cpl. Victor Munnery (see 24^th August) and Pte. Wellington Baldwin (see 4^th August) and, on the orders of Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 2^nd September) Pte. Tucker would undergo seven days’ Field Punishment no.2.

Pte. Sidney Powdrill (see 20^th August) was temporarily attached to 69^th Trench Mortar Battery.

Sgt. William Walker Rossall MM (see 6^th August) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia; he was suffering from ‘venereal disease – not yet diagnosed’.

L.Cpl. Louis Feather MM (see 28^th July) was briefly admitted to hospital (cause and details unknown); he would re-join the Battalion after two days.

Pte. Frederick George Westlake (see 1^st September), who was awaiting trial by Field General Court Martial having suffered a gunshot wound to his right foot two weeks’ previously, was transferred from 69^th Field Ambulance to 9^th Casualty Clearing Station.


Cpl. Harry Wood (see 31^st August), who was under treatment at 24^th Casualty Clearing Station having suffered severe wounds in the trench raid on 26^th August, underwent a further operation; ‘Local anaesthetic; wound of neck (left) explored; counter incision and drainage’.

Pte. Charles Frederick Riddial (see 25^th August), who was home on leave, was married, at Newsome Parish Church, to Nellie Wilkinson.

Cpl. John Dalby (see 28^th January), serving in France with 2^nd/4^th DWR, was evacuated to England having been wounded, suffering wounds to his right arm; the date of his wounding and the detail of his treatment are unknown.

L.Cpl.  James Edward Simpson (see 28^th January), serving in France with 2^nd/7^th DWR, departed for England on two weeks’ leave. 


Pte. Alfred Austin Dibb (see 6^th October 1916) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of wounds; in the absence of a surviving service record it has not been possible to establish whether this arose from his having been wounded in October 1916 or from a subsequent incident. He was assessed as having suffered a 30% disability and was awarded the Silver War Badge and an Army pension of 12s. per week.