Monday 8th September 1919

L.Cpl. John Jackson (19555) (see 27^th August), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, was reported as ‘absent from his billet from 9pm until 9.30pm’; he would be ordered to be deprived of seven days’ pay.

Payment of an £11 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Arthur Bearpark (see 27^th March 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, William.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harry Briggs (16040) (see 29^th September 1916), who had been killed in action in March; the payment would go to his widow, Ada.

Payment of an £11 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Smith (13487) (see 5^th December 1916), who had died of wounds in May 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Priscilla.

Sunday 7th September 1919

A/Sgt. L.Cpl. Fred Oldroyd (see 24^th August), L.Cpl. Charles Sidney Taylor (see 24^th August) and Ptes. Walter Clarke (see 24^th August), Walter Gee Wardley (see 24^th August) and Herbert John Wicks (see 24^th August), who had returned to England after serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, were demobilized from the Dispersal Centre at Ripon.

Saturday 6th September 1919

L.Cpl. Herman Tutty (see 26^th August) and Ptes. Henry Fielding (see 10^th March), Joseph Hartley (see 26^th August), Lancelot Johnson (see 11^th May) and John Chadwick Taylor (see 7^th July )serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, completed and signed their ‘Statement as to Disability’ forms prior to being posted to England for demobilization. They would depart for England within days, though the precise date is unknown. 

Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Claude Smith Slater (see 9^th October 1916), who had died of wounds in July 1916. The payment would go to his widowed mother, Annie.

Pte. Claude Smith Slater

Friday 5th September 1919

Writing from no.58 Prisoner of War Camp at Ross-on-Wye, where he was serving as adjutant to the Commandant of the Camp, Lt. John William Headings (see 7^th March), wrote to the Infantry Record Office in York, asking for copies of the warrants promoting him Warrant Officer Class II & I.

The three Headings brothers, from left to right, James Lawrence, John William (standing) and Henry George.

Thursday 4th September 1919

Pte. Tom Clay (see 15^th August), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, was recorded as having been posted to Budapest; the nature and details of this posting are unknown.

Sgt. Joseph Patrick Melvin (see 18^th July), serving in France with 2^nd/4^th DWR, was posted back to England.

Pte. James Austin (see 26^th August), who had been posted back to England for demobilization from 1034 Employment Company at Arquata Scrivia, was admitted to the Military Hospital, Endell Street, Covent Garden, London, suffering from debility.

Capt. Rev. Hugh Wilfrid Todd (see 3^rd June), who had served on a temporary commission as Battalion Chaplain from June 1917, had his commission converted to a permanent post as an Army Chaplain.

Cpl. Cecil Stanley Pitblado (see 26^th March 1918), serving in England with the Military Provost Staff Corps, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

A further payment, of £32 6s. 7d., was authorised, including a gratuity of £14 10s., being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Cpl. Ernest Pearson MM (see 9^th May) who had been killed in action on 27^th October 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah.

Wednesday 3rd September 1919

Sgt. Arthur Manks (see 11^th June), on attachment from 3DWR to a Prisoner of War camp at East Boldon near Sunderland, was awarded a war gratuity of £31 10s.

There was a revision of the pension award which had been made to L.Cpl. Joseph Simpson (see 22^nd February), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in February. He was now re-assessed as having suffered a 30% disability, based upon both his wounds and ‘valvular disease of the heart’; his weekly pension was increased from 8s. 3d. to 15s., to be reviewed after one year.



There was a revision of the pension award which had been made to Pte. Myers Atkinson (see 11^th February), who had been discharged from the Army having had his left leg amputated below the knee. He was now reassessed as having suffered a 50% disability and and his pension was increased from 13s. 9d. per week to £1 11s. 9d.. Myers Atkinson had returned to Shipley, where he would later work as a nightwatchman; he would die in 1960, aged 74.

An Army Medical Board reviewed the case of Pte. Frank Easterby (see 5^th March 1919), who had been discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds in March; he was now to be allowed an additional 5s. per week allowance to take account of his wife as a dependent.
Payment of a £6 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Henry Jowett (see 25^th May 1916), who had been killed in action in March 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Nancy Jowett.

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Edward Tetlow (see 26^th December 1916), who had been killed in June whilst attached to 181^st Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers; the payment would go to his mother, Eliza.

Tuesday 2nd September 1919

Pte. Ernest Mudd (see 8^th May), who was serving at the Regimental Depot in Halifax, was granted a war gratuity of £17 10s..

Pte. Robert Ellis Clayton (see 9^th July), who had been absent without leave from the Labour Corps, for the previous two months, was apprehended by the police in Keighley; he would be convicted by a District Court Martial and sentenced to eight weeks’ detention.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arthur Edward Holmes (see 7^th November 1916), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his father Edward.