Friday 11th October 1918

Billets at Gambellara.

The weather, which had been generally good over the last few weeks, now became very wet, with periods of heavy rain.

Pte. Joseph Blackburn (29722) (see 15^th September), who had only returned from leave the previous day, was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 23^rd Division Rest Station, suffering from scabies.

Pte. Walter Dey (see 13^th September) was discharged from 11^th General Hospital in Genoa and posted to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano.

Lt. John William Headings (see 26^th September), the Battalion Quartermaster, who had been injured in an accident two weeks’ previously, and had been treated at 11^th General Hospital in Genoa, was evacuated to England, travelling from Le Havre to Southampton. On arrival in England he would be admitted to 2^nd Northern General Hospital, Beckett Park, Leeds.

2Lt. William Swift (see 30^th April), serving in France with 1^st/7^th DWR, on attachment from the West Yorks., was killed in action; he would be buried at Wellington Cemetery, Rieux-en-Cambresis, north-east of Cambrai.

Pte. George Carter (see 5^th July), serving in France with 1^st/6^th DWR was killed in action; he would be buried at Wellington Cemetery, Rieux-en-Cambresis, north-east of Cambrai.

Cpl. Thomas Lloyd (see 18^th September), serving in France with 1^st/7^th DWR, was killed in action; he would be buried at Wellington Cemetery, Rieux-en-Cambresis, north-east of Cambrai.

L.Cpl.  James Edward Simpson (see 5th September), serving in France with 2^nd/7^th DWR, was killed in action; he would be buried at Wellington Cemetery, Rieux-en-Cambresis, north-east of Cambrai. 

Pte. Harold Walker Bray (see 2^nd May), serving in France with 1^st/7^th DWR, was wounded in action, suffering wounds to his left eye and right hand; the details of his treatment are unknown.

Pte. Fred Brook (see 7^th July), serving in France with 1^st/4^th DWR, was wounded in action, suffering wounds to his right hip; he would be evacuated to England but the details of his treatment are unknown.

L.Cpl. George Oversby (see 3^rd June), serving in France with 1^st/4^th DWR, was wounded in action, suffering relatively minor wounds to his right hand and foot; he would be admitted to 22^nd General Hospital in Camiers.

Pte. Herbert Burgess (see 25^th July), serving in Portsmouth with the Royal Engineers, was reported for ‘absenting himself without leave’. He had not reported back on the expiry of his pass at 11.30pm and would not return until being ‘ordered to rejoin his unit by the Military Police at Portsmouth Railway Station about 10.05pm on 14^th October’. He would be ordered to be confined to barracks for seven days and to forfeit four days’ pay.

Pte. Harry Mawson (see 17^th August) was discharged from Keighley War Hospital; he had been re-classified as Category Ciii (suitable only for sedentary work), but the details of his posting are unknown.

Lt. Charles Archibald Milford (see 31^st October 1917), relinquished his appointment as an assistant instructor with a British Military Mission (details unknown).

A payment of £2 17s. 8d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Cpl. Arthur Dyson MM (see 29^th July), who had been officially missing in action since 17^th October 1917; the payment would go to his father, William.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Edwin Isherwood (see 8^th June 1917), who had been killed in action in October 1916 and his brother, and Walter Isherwood (see 8^th June 1917), who had died of measles and pneumonia in October 1914; their mother, Hannah, was awarded 14s. per week, backdated to 17^th April.

Pte. Edwin Isherwood

Image by kind permission of Margaret Brenchley