Tuesday 1st October 1918

Billets in Creazzo.

Training continued.

Pte. Nathaniel Bather (see 29^th September) 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 gonorrhoea.

Pte. Richard Harrison (see 26^th August) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance to 23^rd Division Rest Station, suffering from scabies; he would be discharged and re-join the Battalion ten days’ later.

Pte. Willie Davenport Frame (see 22^nd September) was transferred from 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 11^th General Hospital in Genoa; he was suffering from “P.U.O” (pyrexia, or high temperature, of unknown origin).

Pte. Sidney John Rainbow (see 16^th September), who had been under treatment at 39^th Casualty Clearing Station for pneumonia, was transferred to 29^th Stationary Hospital in Cremona.

Pte. George Ingle (see 3^rd September) was discharged from 9^th Casualty Clearing Station and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Alfred Charles Dolphin (see 7^th August) was discharged from 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Jonas Yoxall (see 4^th September) was posted from Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Cpl. Mark Butler (see 11^th September), who had been wounded on 11^th September, was transferred from 29^th Stationary Hospital in Cremona to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano.

Cpl. Joseph Dunn (see 31^st May), who had been in England since April having been taken ill while serving with 2^nd/7^th DWR, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

A payment of £2 15s. 7d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Ben Beaumont (see 27^th September 1917), who had been officially ‘missing in action’ since 27^th September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Benjamin.

Pte. Ben Beaumont

The October edition of the Slaidburn Parish Magazine would include reference to a letter received from RSM Charles Edward Parker, DCM, MM (see 28^th September)

“I have had a very interesting letter from RSM C.E. Parker, who joined up in September 1914, and has won the DCM and the MM. I am glad that he asks for our prayers that he might be guided aright. We heartily congratulate him on his wonderful record”.