Monday 7th October 1918

Billets at Montecchio Maggiore. 

Starting out at 7.35am, the Battalion marched a further nine miles south-west, via Montebello Vicentino to new billets at Gambellara.

Pte. Leonard Pankhurst (see 11^th September 1915) was admitted via 21^st Field Ambulance and 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 51^st Stationary Hospital; he was suffering from influenza.

Capt. Bob Perks DSO (see 5^th October) sent a field service postcard to his sister Joy, acknowledging receipt of a recent letter.

Image by kind permission of Janet Hudson

Pte. Jack Edgar Hall (see 22^nd September) was transferred from 23^rd Division Rest Station; via 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 38^th General Hospital in Genoa; he was now diagnosed as suffering from “I.C.T.” (Inflammation of the connective tissue) to both legs.

Pte. Smith Stephenson Whitaker (see 24^th September) was transferred from 23^rd Division Rest Station via 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 11^th General Hospital in Genoa; he was now diagnosed as suffering from “I.C.T.” (Inflammation of the connective tissue) to both legs.

Pte. Ernest Portman (see 13^th December 1917), serving with 23^rd Division Military Police, 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 influenza.

Pte. James Robert Ingleson (see 27^th August), who was under treatment at 2^nd Northern General Hospital, Leeds, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds. He would be awarded the Silver War Badge and a pension of 22s. per week to be reviewed in nine months.

A payment of £12 6s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Ernest Taylor (29168) (see 27^th July), who had died of wounds on 27^th July while serving in France with 1^st/6^th DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Elizabeth. She would also receive a package of her late husband’s personal effects, comprising of, “photos, pipe, religious book, cards, match book, pouch”.