There was no change in the weather and the routine of
training and working parties continued.
LCpl. Thomas Arthur
Sturdy (see 8th January)
was promoted Corporal.
Pte. Patrick Sweeney (see 11th January), who had joined the Battalion a month earlier, was admitted to 69th Field Ambulance with a diagnosis of gonorrhoea.
L.Cpl. Thomas Arthur Sturdy (see 8th January) was promoted Corporal; Pte. Walter Appleby (see 6th December 1916) was appointed Lance Corporal; Ptes. George Heeley (see 17th June 1916) and Thomas Robinson (16490) MM (see 6th December 1916) were appointed (unpaid) Lance Corporal.
Lt. Cecil Edward
Merryweather (see 15th
January), currently on home service with the RFA, appeared before a further
Medical Board at the Military Hospital at Ripon. The Board found him fit for
general service.
Cpl. William Johnson Simpson (see 12th October 1915), who had served in France with 12th West Yorks since September 1915, was posted to England to begin a course of officer training; once commissioned he would serve with 10DWR.
Cpl. William Johnson Simpson (see 12th October 1915), who had served in France with 12th West Yorks since September 1915, was posted to England to begin a course of officer training; once commissioned he would serve with 10DWR.
William Leach
(see 12th August 1916),
who had been discharged from the Army due to wounds in August 1916, had his
Army pension reduced from 25s. per week to 12s. 6d. per week.
A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Francis Herbert Maltby (see 21st October 1916), who had been killed in action in July 1916; his widowed mother, Sarah, was awarded 5s. per week.
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William Leach
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A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Francis Herbert Maltby (see 21st October 1916), who had been killed in action in July 1916; his widowed mother, Sarah, was awarded 5s. per week.
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| Pte. Francis Herbert Maltby |
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