Tuesday 8th October 1918

Billets at Gambellara.

Over the next week the Battalion would be “occupied in general training, route marches tactical exercises etc.”.

Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 26^th August) DSO, who had first joined the Battalion in August 1916 from 12DLI, left the Battalion to take up the post of Second-in-Command of 12^th Battalion Durham Light Infantry.

Maj. Edward Borrow DSO

Pte. Albert Smith (25953) (see 21^st July) was reported by Sgt. Alfred Dolding (see 4th October) and A/CQMS George Alfred Giles (see 18^th September) as being ‘deficient of mess tin’; on the orders of of Capt. Leonard Norman Phillips MC (see 4th October) he would pay for the missing item.

Pte. Clarence Hubert Bolt (see 22^nd June) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 24^th Casualty Clearing Station to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia; he was suffering from an abcess.

Pte. John Foster (see 18^th September), serving in France with 2/7^th DWR, departed on two weeks’ leave to England.

Pte. Patrick Conley (see 7^th August), serving in England with the Labour Corps, was posted to 615^th Labour Company.

A payment of £1 12s. 6d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Jabez Wintersgill (see 8th May), who had been officially ‘missing in action’ since 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Betsy.



A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Albert Armitage (see 13^th June), who had died of wounds in March; his mother, Charlotte, was awarded 12s. 6d. per week. However, the award would not be put into effect as Charlotte had recently remarried (she was now Mrs. Marshall) and was therefore ineligible.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Walter Robinson (14753) (see 24^th April 1918), who had been killed in action while serving with 1^st/6^th DWR in France; his father, Albert, was awarded 5s. per week, backdated to 3^rd June.

Pte. Walter Robinson (14753)