Sunday 3rd
February 1918
1st Battalion,
Bedfordshire Regiment are in the front line on the River Piave at a village
called Bidasio. Last night they suffered their first casualties as two other
ranks were wounded by Austrian light artillery of 77 mm calibre. The night was
spent clearing communication trenches.
The adjutant
of 8th Battalion, at Lebucquière near Bapaume, tells us that Lieutenant Leonard
Dolman has been posthumously awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre; he died of his
wounds on the last day of 1917; 20454 Lance Sergeant W Cooper of A Company has
been similarly honoured but is still very much alive.
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