Saturday 23rd November 1918

In billets at Montecchia di Crosara and Grumolo. 

The Battalion was occupied in training and inter-Company football matches.

Pte. Harold Charnock (see 14^th November) recalled that at Montecchia di Crosara “there was an excellent football field and good training ground.  HQ now in Priest’s House”. The village was also remembered as being, “a charming little township, set amidst pleasant hill country, with a delightful mini theatre”.

Pte. Edgar Baron (see 5^th September) was reported by CSM Fred Pattison DCM (see 15^th November)  as having been ‘absent from guard mounting’; on the orders of Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 4^th November) he would undergo 14 days’ Field Punishment no.1.

Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see above) wrote to HQ, 69^th Brigade, regarding the late Pte. James Isaac King (see 27^th October), who had been killed in the crossing of the Piave and who had previously been convicted of desertion and sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. “I have to report that during the past three months the conduct of Pte. King has been quite satisfactory and that at the time of his death he was courageously doing his duty in action. I suggest his sentence be remitted”. One week later official confirmation would be issued from 23^rd Division HQ that the sentence had indeed been remitted.

Seven weeks after having been reported as a deserter, Pte. John Stenson (see 4^th October) reported for duty with 3DWR at North Shields and was placed under arrest to await trial by court martial.