Tuesday 22nd October 1918

Billets at Limbraga.

In the afternoon the Battalion marched a further two miles north-east to the hamlet of Catena, north-east of Lancenigo, where they were accommodated in tents and bivouacs. 

2Lt. Bernard Garside (see 15^th October) later recalled, “Bivouacs are small baby tents big enough for two at most and not nearly big enough to stand up in. I went ahead to superintend the erecting of our Company’s. It shows how funny memory is, for the chief thing I remember about those few days is that we had very few cigarettes and Auntie May had sent me some which I told my batman to use within reason, since I knew he liked a smoke. Well the man could not resist not only supplying himself, but also several pals as well, so that when I went next to my box half were gone already. I never quite forgave him for that, for I had come to regard cigarettes as very precious, especially those sent me with Auntie’s love”.

2Lts. Edgar Leyland Mills Lumb (see 11^th September), Robert Jowett Robinson (see 11^th September) and Samuel Whitaker (see 11^th September) who had arrived in Italy six weeks previously, now reported for duty with the Battalion. 

L.Cpl. Richard Cleasby Chorley (see 30^th May) was admitted via 21^st Field Ambulance and 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia; he was suffering from influenza.

Pte. William Henry Bray (see 9^th October) serving with the Assistant Provost Marshall, 23^rd Division, was discharged from 51^st Stationary Hospital and posted to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano. 

2Lt. Harry Waddington (see 10^th October), who was on home on leave from serving in France with 1^st/7^th DWR, was married, at the Parish Church in Bradford, to Lucy Rowbotham.

Pte. Sidney Wood (see 13^th August), who had been in England since having been wounded in the trench raid on 21^st June, was transferred to 3DWR at North Shields.  

L.Cpl. Dennis Waller MM (see 4^th October), who had been severely wounded in action on 8^th August while serving in serving in France with 2DWR, suffering a compound fracture of his left femur, died at Edmonton General Military Hospital. His medical notes reported the sequence of events during the day; “Secondary haemhorrage from inner caliper incision; calipers reapplied; ether anaesthesia; several sequestra (fragments of dead bone) removed; 4 hours later, copious oozing from buttock wound; wound repacked; ether anaesthesia; 8pm after rectal salines and intravenous salines, blood transfusion was done, citrate method; 9pm patient died of prolonged sepsis, haemhorrage and shock”. Pte. Waller would be buried at Bradford (Bowling) Cemetery.

A payment of £4 9s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. William Northrop (see 26^th August), who had been killed during the trench raid on 26^th August; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah Alice.