Sunday 10th November 1918

In billets at Lancenigo.

Starting out in the early hours, the Battalion marched six miles to Treviso, arriving before 5.20am. Here they boarded a train at 6.20am and were taken 60 miles west to Tavernelle, south-west of Vicenza. The train journey which was scheduled for three hours in actual fact took almost eight hours and it was 2pm before the Battalion disembarked for a final five mile march south-west, via Montebello Vicentino, to billets at Terrossa.

After the Battalion had left Lancenigo, Pte. Reginald Dayson (see 20^th October), who had been held in confinement awaiting trial by Field General Court Martial, escaped and again went absent without leave.

Ptes. Douglas Mercer (see 10^th September) and Albert Smith (25953) (see 8^th October) were admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 38^th Stationary Hospital in Genoa; they were suffering from influenza.

Pte. John Newton (see 29^th October), who had been wounded two weeks’ previously, was transferred from 38^th Stationary Hospital in Genoa to 57^th General Hospital in Marseilles. 

Pte. Arthur Clarke (see 30^th October) and Ernest Wilson (11751) (see 10^th October), who had been taken ill whilst on home leave, embarked for France, en route to re-joining the Battalion. Clarke had been ordered to report on 31^st October but had not actually reported himself at Southampton until 6.15am on 7^th November. He now travelled from Southampton to Le Havre onboard the Mona’s Queen. On arrival at Le Havre he would join ‘B’ Infantry Base Depot, before, five days later, departing for Italy. Pte. Albert Edward Trevor was also posted to join 10DWR; he had previously served with 8DWR (first going out to Gallipoli in November 1915) and 2DWR. He was 27 years old and from Halifax, where he had worked before the war as a baker; he had married Lily Bainbridge in August.