Sunday 6th June 1920

Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 19^th May) replied to the War Office following a recent enquiry regarding 2Lt. Percival Victor Thomas (see 1^st March 1919), “I have the honour to report that Second Lieutenant Thomas gave me satisfaction in the performance of his duties so far as his health permitted and I think he should be promoted so as to be entitled to keep the rank of Lieutenant on demobilisation. I consider it my duty, however, to state that this officer’s health was so bad that I considered him unfit for combatant duty”.