Sunday 10th
March 1918
The adjutant
of 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, guarding a vital bridge over the River
Piave at Bidasio reports that Second Lieutenant W F G Perham has died of the wounds
he received yesterday. He will be buried this evening in the growing British
cemetery at Arcade and several officers and a number of men of his platoon have
been given leave to attend the funeral. Arcade is a village about two miles
south-west of the bridge and the cemetery is about two miles or more to the
west of the village
