Tuesday 3rd September 1918

In Brigade reserve camp near Cavalletto.

The Battalion was relieved by 8Yorks and moved into brigade reserve in huts near Monte Pau.

Pte. Charles Walton (see 7^th August) was reported by Sgt. Ernest Craddock (see 26^th August) as having a “dirty bayonet on 9am parade; on the orders of Capt. Dick Bolton MC (see 29^th August) he would be confined to barracks for four days.

Pte. Joseph William Carter (see 22^nd March) was admitted to 69^th Field Ambulance, suffering from “inflammation of the larynx”; he would be discharged and re-join the Battalion eight days later.

Pte. Fred Rawnsley (see 23rd May) was admitted to 39^th Casualty Clearing Station; he was initially diagnosed as suffering from scabies, but after five days he would be diagnosed as suffering from “mental illness, not yet diagnosed” and would be transferred to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia.

Pte. George Ingle (see 30^th August), who was being treated for diarrohea at 71^st Field Ambulance, suffered burns to his right arm when an oil lamp exploded and set light to his shirt; he was transferred to 9^th Casualty Clearing Station for further treatment.

Pte. William Atkinson (25980) (see 27^th May) was discharged from hospital in Marseilles (details unknown) and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia; he had been suffering from gonorrhoea.

Capt. Hugh William Lester MC (see 23^rd July), serving in France as Brigade Major to 11^th Infantry Brigade, would be awarded a Bar to the Military Cross, “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty near Eterpigny during the period August 29th to September 3rd, 1918, when he carried out his duties as Brigade Major with great energy, being always well up in front and keeping his headquarters well informed of the progress of the fighting. He finished up at dawn on the sixth day by discovering that the enemy had withdrawn”.