Sunday 29th February 1920

Pte. Charles Godfrey Kingdom was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was a 23 year-old textile worker from Holmfirth. He had only ever served with 10DWR but, in the absence of a surviving service record, I am unable to establish any details of his service.

Saturday 28th February 1920

A/Maj. John Atkinson (see 13^th October 1919), who had been released from the Army four months previously, wrote to the War Office regarding pay and allowances due to him; “It is with great great reluctance that I am compelled to write to you about my allowances. I was demobilized on October 13^th last and the last month for which I received my allowance was the May prior to that date. I can get no satisfaction from any paymaster and not even a reply from the Command Paymaster, Eastern Command, Kensington, London, although I have written four times, extending over a period of months. I joined the Cheshire Regiment at Ipswich from North Shields, where the West Riding Regiment was stationed, on December 13^th 1918 and went with them to the Army of Occupation in Germany. The Battalion was split up there and we became the 1^st/4^th Cheshire Regiment. From there I was transferred to Western Division HQ as Commandant, Reception Camp, with the temporary rasnk of Major. On August 25^th we returned to Rhyl, North Wales, for demobilization. During that period I sent in the usual claims for my allowances but, through some trouble in the Paymaster Department at Cologne, nothing happened. Now the point is how am I to claim these allowances? It is a matter of £50 or £60 which I require urgently. I have sunk all my gratuity in brick works, which are not bringing in any return at the moment and I relied upon this money to keep me during this period. I cannot afford to wait as I am a married man with five children and a wife who is continually in the doctor’s hands.

I might point out that I joined the Army in August 1914 – leaving my job and wasting the best years of my life. I might also point out that I only joined the Army of Occupation on the understanding that I got my majority (hence a bigger gratuity on demobilization) and, although I did the work of second-in-command of my Battalion for several months, and was repeatedly promised the rank of Major, I still remained a Captain when I went to Germany and was brought to Germany under false pretences.

Will you kindly interest yourself on my behalf.”

Friday 27th February 1920

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Thursday 26th February 1920

Pte. John Henshall (see 13^th November 1919), serving with 2DWR, was admitted to hospital (details unknown) suffering from a recurrence of problems arising from the leg wounds he had suffered in July 1916; after two days he would be transferred to the Military Hospital in Ripon.

Wednesday 25th February 1920

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 5^th February), who was under treatment at 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, on account of wounds he had suffered in October 1918, was granted one month’s leave, on the expiry of which he was to return to hospital. The course of 13 ‘weekly inoculations of autogenous serum’ which he had begun three weeks previously was to be continued whilst he was at home in Knaresborough on the grounds that the injections ‘could be administered to me here at less expense to both the State and myself than had I remained in hospital’.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

Officials at the Foreign Office, writing on behalf of Earl Curzon, wrote to the Army Council, regarding Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 10^th January),

“With reference to Foreign Office letter 178852 of the 19^th instant regarding the Klagenfurt Plebiscite Commission, I am directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston to state that Major Edward Borrow has accepted the appointment of Assistant British Commissioner. Lord Curzon considers it very desirable that Major Borrow should be re-mobilized in order that he, as well as Colonel Peck and the other military officers serving in the Commission, should be able to wear British military uniform during the taking of the plebiscite. In view of the unsettled conditions of the country and the additional prestige which this outward sign of their nationality and rank will confer on the officers in question in that area, I am to ask that, subject to the concurrence of the Army Council, Major Borrow may be authorised so to do”.

Maj. Edward Borrow, DSO

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Thomas Henry Wood (see 12^th November 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Arthur.

Tuesday 24th February 1920

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Monday 23rd February 1920

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.