Thursday 3rd October 1918

Billets in Creazzo.

Training continued.

Pte. Alfred Whittaker (see 20^th September) re-joined the Battalion having been reported ‘absent off leave’ whilst in England. He would be charged with the offence, found guilty and, on the orders of Capt. Leonard Norman Phillips MC (see 28^th September), would undergo seven days Field Punishment no.1 and forfeit two days’ pay.

L.Cpl. William (Billy) Hoyle MM (see 11^th September) re-joined the Battalion following hospital treatment for ‘dental caries’.

Pte. Samuel Garside Hardy (see 22^nd August 1917) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 28^th Casualty Clearing Station to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia; he was suffering from dysentery.

Pte. Alfred Shaw (see 14^th September) was posted from 16^th Convalescent Depot in Marseilles to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Frederick Thorn (see 22^nd August), serving as an officer’s servant at XIV Corps reinforcement camp, was admitted to 9^th Casualty Clearing Station, suffering from bronchitis.

Mrs. Elizabeth Goodship, mother of Pte. John James Goodship (see 21^st June), received a postcard from her son, confirming that he was a prisoner of war in Germany, having been captured during the trench raid on 21^st June.

2Lt. Conrad Anderson (see 23^rd July), who had been serving with a battalion of the Dukes in France (details unknown), left his battalion having reported sick.

Pte. Herbert Wood (see 23^rd September), who had been in England since having been wounded in April, was discharged from Lichfield Military Hospital; he would have one weeks’ leave before reporting to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

Pte. Robinson Butterfield (see 20^th September 1917), who had been in England since having been severely wounded in September 1917, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he would be awarded the Silver War Badge and was assessed as having suffered a 30% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 17s. 3d. per week.

Pte. Trayton George Harper (see 5^th June), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to his wounds; he would be awarded the Silver War Badge and a pension of 8s. 3d. per week, to be reviewed in one year.

Pte. Fred Smith (23056) (see 6^th March) serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to his wounds; he would be awarded the Silver War Badge and a pension of 11s. per week, to be reviewed in one year.