Tuesday 3rd December 1918

Billets at Arzignano

L.Cpl. Louis Feather MM (see 5^th September) was admitted to 24^th Casualty Clearing Station (cause and details unknown); he would re-join the Battalion a week later.

Pte. Matthew Stone (see 27^th October), who had been wounded on 27^th October and was under treatment somewhere in Italy (details unknown), was reported, “absent from 9pm roll call until 9.45pm”; he was ordered to be confined to barracks for five days.

Pte. Richard Henry Harris (see 27^th November) was discharged from the Stationary Hospital in Marseilles and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Michael Newton (see 14^th November) was discharged from 16^th Convalescent Depot in Marseilles and posted to to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Claude Wilfred Norman (see 20^th November) was evacuated to England from 81^st General Hospital in Marseilles.

Pte. Sam Tinkler (see 30^th August), serving in France with 54^th Company, Labour Corps, was admitted to a local Field Ambulance unit suffering from influenza; he would be discharged and re-join his unit after five days.

 

Pte. Sam Tinkler

Pte. Hubert Crabtree (see 8^th February), home on leave from 1^st/6^thDWR, was married to Florence Bentley; the wedding took place at Ovenden Parish Church.

Sgt. John William Wardman DCM, MM (see 24^th October) was discharged from hospital (details unknown) and posted to the Regimental Depot in Halifax.

Sgt. John William Wardman DCM, MM

Image by kind permission of Paul Bishop

L.Cpl. George Oversby (see 20^th October) was discharged from 1^st Birmingham War Hospital.

Pte. John Edward Bartle MM (see 25^th July), who had been wounded in July while serving in France with 2^nd/4^th DWR, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit on account of his wounds; he was awarded a pension of 19s. 3d. per week for three months, reducing thereafter to 13s. 9d. and to be reviewed in one year.

A payment of £27 12s. 10d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Robert Clarke (see 27^th August), who had died of wounds on 27^th August; the payment would go to his father, Isaac. His father would also receive a package of his late son’s personal effects (details unknown).

A payment of £16 19s. 7d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Edwin Kenyon (see 13^th September 1918) who had been killed during the trench raid on 26^th August; the payment would go to his widow, May.