Sunday 13th October 1918

Billets at Gambellara.

The Battalion marched 14 miles north-east, via Montebello Vicentino and Tavernelle, back to their former billets at Creazzo. Conditions for the march were very poor, with heavy rain for much of the day.

Pte. Henry Grimshaw (see 10^th September) was reported absent without leave at 9.40am and would remain absent until reporting himself to the Military Police at 11.30am on the 15^th; he was also reported for ‘losing by neglect his rifle bayonet, scabbard, set of leather equipment and small box respirator”. He was ordered to undergo 28 days’ Field Punishment no.1 and to forfeit three days’ pay and pay for the lost equipment.

Pte. John George Sleight (see 23^rd May) was admitted via 21^st Field Ambulance and 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 51st Stationary Hospital at Arquata Scrivia; he was suffering from influenza.

Pte. Ernest William Gilbert (see 4^th August) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia; he had suffered an accidental injury to his left knee.

Pte. James Stott (see 29^th September) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 11^th General Hospital in Genoa, suffering from tonsillitis.

Pte. Willie Davenport Frame (see 1^st October) was transferred from 11^th General Hospital in Genoa to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albaro.

Pte. William Shirtcliffe Mallinson (see 5^th October) was transferred from 23^rd Division Rest Station, via 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia, to 57^th General Hospital in Marseilles; he was being treated both for boils and “I.C.T.” (Inflammation of the connective tissue) to his left knee.

Cpl. William Frederick Ackrill (see 30^th September), who had suffered an accidental injury to his knee while serving in France with 2DWR, was discharged from 23^rd Casualty Clearing Station; he would re-join his Battalion four days later.

Cpl. William Foulds (see 30^th September), who had been at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley for the previous six weeks, was transferred to West Cliffe Auxiliary Hospital, Hythe.

A review of the pension award which had been made in respect of the late Sgt. Charles McCusker (see 18^th May 1916), who had been killed in an accident at the Brigade bomb school in November 1915, resulted in the weekly pension payable to his widow, Lilian, being increased from 16s. to £1 3s. 11d..

Sgt. Charles McCusker