Wednesday 20th November 1918

In billets and tents at San Giovanni Ilarione.

2Lt. Mark Allan Stanley Wood (see 26^th August), who had spent some time in England having been wounded on 26^th August, re-joined the Battalion. 

Sgt. Albert Hoggarth (see 6^th November), Cpl. Mark Butler (see 17^th October) and Ptes. John Cronin (see 17^th October), Walter Dey (see 12^th November), Willie Davenport Frame (see 28^th October), John William Kirby (see 26^th October), James Henry Lomax (see 6^th November), James Pidgeley (see 1^st November) and Alfred Shaw (see 3^rd October) re-joined the Battalion from the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Ptes. Ralph Braithwaite (see 24^th October) Thomas Prince (see 29^th October), Samuel Stansfield (see 27^th October), Alfred Whittaker (see 12^th October) and Arthur Wood (29524) (see 24^th October) also re-joined the Battalion, following treatment at 9^th and 39^th Casualty Clearing Stations.

Pte. Samuel Stansfield

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Pte. Sidney Guy Mealing (see 29^th June) was admitted to 69^th Field Ambulance, suffering from scabies; he would be discharged and re-join the Battalion one week later.

Pte. Josiah Charles (see 27^th October) was discharged from 51^st Stationary Hospital and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Harry Simpson (see 29^th October) was discharged from 38^th Stationary Hospital in Genoa and posted to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano.

Pte. Claude Wilfred Norman (see 27^th October), who had been wounded on 27^th October, was transferred from 51^st Stationary Hospital to 81^st General Hospital in Marseilles.

Pte. John James Pickering (see 29^th October), who had been wounded on 29^th October, was transferred from 11^th General Hospital in Genoa to 81^st General Hospital in Marseilles.

Pte. Tom Lister Ellison (see 18^th October) was transferred from 38^th Stationary Hospital in Genoa to 81^st General Hospital in Marseilles; in addition to influenza he was also suffering from piles.

Pte. Herbert Wood (see 3^rd October), who had been in England since having been wounded in April, was transferred from Northern Command Depot at Ripon to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. John Mooring (see 7^th June 1917), who had been in England since having been wounded in June 1917, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

2Lt. John William Pontefract (see 15^th November), who had suffered a bullet wound to the face on 7^th October, appeared before an Army Medical Board at 1^st Southern General Hospital, Birmingham. The Board found that, “The wound has healed; there has been no injury of bone, vessels or nerves. He complains of stiffness and pain when biting on the right side; this, however, is improving daily”. He was granted one months’ leave and duly travelled to the family home in Huddersfield.

Pte. Richard Marsden (see 13^th April), who had been taken prisoner in April while serving with 1^st/4^th DWR, was among a draft of released British prisoners who were repatriated to England, travelling from Calais to Dover.