Wednesday 4th December 1918

Billets at Arzignano

Sgt. Wilfred Fletcher (see 25^th November), who had fractured his right wrist while playing rugby, was transferred from 9^th Casualty Clearing Station to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia.

Cpl. George Henry Hansford MM (see 1^st November) was discharged from Northants War Hospital in Duston following treatment for a “small bullet wound, upper 1/3^rd left leg”; he would have ten days’ leave before reporting to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. Thomas James Hogben (see 4^th September), who had been in England since having been wounded in August, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Just five days after the death of his younger brother Michael, John O’Gara died from influenza and broncho-pneumonia; Pte. John O’Gara (see 30^th November) was again with his son when he died.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Henry Marshall (see 12^th November 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; his mother, Mary, was awarded 7s. 6d. per week.