Thursday 14th November 1918

In billets and tents at San Giovanni Ilarione.

Pte. Harold Charnock (see 27^th October) recalled that, “Half the Battalion was in bad billets and half in Italian tents.  It was intensely cold.  Here there was training and a good deal of football”.

Ptes. William Hill (see 30^th October) and Michael Newton (see 3^rd November) were transferred from 57^th General Hospital in Marseilles to 16^th Convalescent Depot also in Marseilles.

A payment of £26 14s. 3d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Sgt. Lewis Brazey (see 8^th August), who been killed in action in August while serving in France with 2DWR, the payment would go to his father, Joseph.

2Lt. Billy Oldfield MM (see 21^st October), who had been severely wounded in April while serving in France with 1^st/4^th DWR and was still at 2^nd Northern General Hospital in Leeds, wrote to the War Office to request that he may be issued with the Silver War Badge which was authorised for officers and men discharged from the Army due to illness or wounds.

2Lt. Billy Oldfield MM

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton