Thursday 19th December 1918

Billets at Morando

Pte. James Henry Lomax (see 28^th November) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance to 23^rd Division Rest Station, suffering from scabies; he would be discharged and re-join the Battalion after one week.

Pte. William Hutchinson (see 22^nd August) was briefly admitted to one of the local Field Ambulance units (details unknown).

Pte. Nathaniel Bather (see 1^st October) was discharged from 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia and posted to “Caesar’s Camp” at Arquata Scrivia.


Pte. Reginald Jerry Northin (see 3^rd May 1917),who had been a prisoner of war since May 1917, was re-patriated to England.

Having served five months of an 18-month sentence, Pte. William Baxter (see 17^th July) was released from no.1 Military Prison in Rouen on suspension of the remainder of his sentence and posted back to 17^th Prisoner of War Company.

Cpl. William Henry Thornton (see 7^th August), serving in England with the Army Pay Corps, was promoted (Acting) Lance Sergeant.

Pte. John William Mallinson (see 25^th November) was discharged from hospital in Eastleigh; he would have ten days’ leave before reporting to 3DWR at North Shields.

Lt. Andrew Aaron Jackson (see 10^th December), who had suffered wounds to his right shoulder during the trench raid on 26^th August, appeared before a further Army Medical Board which determined that he should remain under treatment at Lady Cooper’s Hospital, Hursley Park, Winchester.

A payment of £10 7s. 2d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Harry Clay (see 26^th August 1918), who had been killed in action on 26^th August 1918 while serving in France with 9DWR; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.