Wednesday 9th October 1918

Billets at Gambellara.

At some point during the stay at Gambellara, two photographs were taken which survive amongst an album collected by Capt. Leonard Norman Phillips MC (see 8^th October).

Images by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum

Pte. Reginald Dayson (see 29^th September) was reported by CSM Albert Blackburn (see 29^th September) as ‘absent from 1pm parade’; on the orders of 2Lt. John William Pontefract (see 22^nd March), he was to be confined to barracks for five days.

Ptes. Lewis Batey (see 17^th August) and Frank Wood MM (see 26^th August) re-joined the Battalion from 24^th Casualty Clearing Station.

Ptes. Harry Beaumont (29306) (see 27^th September), Alfred Charles Dolphin (see 1^st October), George Ingle (see 1^st October) and James Pidgeley (see 24^th September) re-joined the Battalion from the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Sidney John Rainbow (see 1^st October) was transferred from 29^th Stationary Hospital in Cremona to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia; he was suffering from ‘debility’.

Pte. William Henry Bray (see 21^st January) serving with “A.P.M. 23^rd Division” (I am, as yet, unable to identify the meaning of the abbreviation), was admitted via 21^st Field Ambulance and 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 51^st Stationary Hospital; he was suffering from influenza.

Pte. Thomas Walter Mellin (see 27^th August), who had suffered shrapnel wounds to his back while serving with 9DWR in France, was evacuated to England from 2^nd Canadian General Hospital at Le Treport; he would travel onboard the Hospital Ship Gloucester Castle.

L.Cpl. Stanley Basil Studd (see 30^th August), who had been wounded while serving in France with 2^nd/4^th DWR, was discharged from the North Staffordshire Infirmary in Stoke on Trent; he would have ten days’ leave before reporting to the Regimental Depot in Halifax.

Lt. Harold Lockhart Waite (see 1^st July), serving with the RAF, was declared fit for light duty, with flying.

Items of personal property belonging to Pte. Charles William Hird (see 28^th August), who had been wounded in August while serving in France with 2DWR, were sent to him at the Red Cross Hospital in Northallerton. The parcel comprised of “AB64, two discs, razor in case”.