Weddnesday 16th October 1918

Billets in Mogliano Veneto.

The Battalion marched ten miles west, via Martellago and Robegano to billets in the Noale area; two companies would be billeted in Noale itself and the other two a little further south in the village of Stigliano. 

Pte. Victor Alexander Wildman (see 25^th August) was reported by L.Cpl. Arthur Whincup (see 26^th August), Cpl. Thomas Mann MM (see 17^th December 1917) and CQMS Hubert Charles Hoyle (see 215th October) for “hesitating to obey an order; ie hesitating to roll blankets when ordered to do so”; on the orders of Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 13^th September) he would undergo 14 days’ Field Punishment no.2.

Pte. Sam Sunderland (see 7^th August 1917) suffered a minor injury to the little finger of his left hand when pricking it on an acacia thorn; he was treated at the Regimental Aid Post and returned to duty.

Pte. Joseph Barber Taylor (see 18^th August) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 29^th Stationary Hospital in Cremona; he was suffering from “I.C.T.” (Inflammation of the connective tissue) to his left buttock.

L.Cpl. John Lamb Watt (see 1^st July) was posted from the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia for duty (details unknown) at Tortona, north of Genoa.

Pte. Frederick Thorn (see 3^rd October), serving as an officer’s servant at XIV Corps reinforcement camp, was discharged from 9^th Casualty Clearing Station and returned to duty.

Lt. Andrew Aaron Jackson (see 24^th September), who had suffered wounds to his right shoulder during the trench raid on 26^th August, and was currently under treatment at Lady Cooper’s Hospital, Hursley Park, Winchester, wrote to the War Office to make his application for a wound gratuity.

A payment of £4 18s. 6d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Cpl. John Henry Hitchin (see 8^th February), who had been killed in the sinking of the troopship HMS Aragon in December 1917; the payment would go to his father, John.

Cpl. John Henry Hitchin

A payment of £7 16s. 11d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Cpl. Edward Woffindale (see 20^th September 1917), who had been officially missing in action since 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Henry.