Wednesday 19th February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

Ptes. Richard Metcalfe (see 1^st December 1918) and Fred Morrell (see 30^th October 1917) completed and signed their ‘Statement as to disability’ forms, which were a precursor to their being posted back to England. The completed forms, which confirmed that they did not claim to have suffered any disability in service, were witnessed by Lt. Edward Kent Waite MC (see 18^th February).

Pte. Robert Ellis Clayton (see 25^th September 1918), serving in France with the Royal Fusiliers, was posted back to England.

Pte. Louis Hodgson (see 26^th October), who had been in England since October 1918, having been wounded, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. John Newton (see 6^th February) was discharged from Brook War Hospital, Woolwich, and posted to a Dispersal Hospital at West Didsbury, where he would spend two days before being demobilized.

Lt. Daniel William Paris Foster (see 17^th September 1917), former Quartermaster 10DWR, was formally released from the Army; he completed his documents whilst at Clipstone Camp. His address on release was 1 John Street, Greetland, Halifax.

Lt. Daniel William Paris Foster

Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum

L.Cpl. Albert Edward Sherratt MM was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was 23 years old and from Huddersfield. In the absence of a surviving service record I am able to establish only the most basic details of his service. He had originally served with 10DWR but had been transferred (date and details unknown) to 2DWR. It was while serving with 2DWR, in October 1917, that he had been awarded the Military Medal; “Between the canal at Poelcappelle in October last, he saw to the carrying of rations to the front line, through shell and machine gun fire and it was due mainly to his efforts that rations were always delivered”, as published in the London Gazette on 28^th January 1918.

Pte. Herbert Cooper (see 10^th July 1916) was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He had been an original member of 10DWR but at some point after having been wounded in July 1916 (date and details unknown) he had been transferred to the Labour Corps. 

Pte. Albert John Start (see 29^th November 1918), serving in England with the Non-Combatant Labour Corps, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. James Harper (see 5^th June 1918) who, at some point (date and details unknown), had been transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. 

A payment of £5 0s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Frank Miller (see 10^th June 1918), who had been officially ‘missing in action’ since October 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary. At some point in the weeks following his having been reported missing (exact date unknown) Pte. Miller’s family had received a letter from 2Lt. Sam Benjamin Farrant (see 1^st January), which they had passed on to the War Office, and which the War Office had retained, prompting the family to write again, requesting the return of the letter and any news of Pte. Miller.

Tuesday 18th February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

In accordance with the orders issued two days previously a large draft from 69^th Brigade was prepared to join 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. which had been selected to become part of the Army of Occupation in Austria. In total the Brigade would provide seven officers and 680 other ranks (30 fewer than had been originally specified). 10DWR would contribute one officer (Lt. Edward Kent Waite MC, see 9^th February)), rather than two, and the 59 men as ordered. The draft would officially join their new Battalion a week later. The men who were posted were as follows:

Sgts. Ronald Jeckell (see 17^th December 1918) and William Walker Rossall MM (see 15^th January).

Cpls. Arthur Lee MM (see 30^th March 1918), Victor Race MM (see 31^st August 1918), Martin Reddington (see 5^th February) and William Edward Varley (see 25^th August 1918).

A/Cpl. Archie Lamb (see 5^th June 1918).

L.Cpls. John Jackson (19555) (see 23^rd September 1918), Fred Oldroyd (see 27^th August 1918), Clarence Smith (see 24^th December 1918) and Herman Tutty (see 28^th October 1918) .

Ptes. Ernest Ashness (see 8^th December 1918), Harry Bailey (25198) (see 15^th December 1918), John Bayliss (see 11^th February), Joseph Barnes (see 17^th October 1918), Harry Beaumont (29306) (see 22^nd November 1918), Thomas Henry Bennett (see 8^th September 1917), Herbert Bibby (see 5^th September 1918), Arthur Edward Bottomley (see 16^th December 1917), Arthur Brook (see 29^th September 1918), Joseph William Carter (see 3^rd September 1918), Walter Clarke (see 23^rd April 1918), Tom Clay (see 21^st October 1918), Charley Culley (see 15^th December 1918), Henry Fielding (see 26^th August 1918), Hartley Gibb (see 1^st September 1918), Edwin Haley (see 11^th August 1918), Joseph Harpin (see 16^th January 1917), Albert Edward Victor Harris (see 17^th October 1918), Joseph Hartley (see 25^th January), John Walter Jennings (see 29^th October 1917), Lancelot Johnson (see 13^th December 1918), Herbert Crowther Kershaw (see 22^nd September 1918), John William Kirby (see 1^st December 1918), James Henry Lomax (see 19^th December 1918), Walter Norman (see 15^th September 1917), James Frederick Palmer (see 22^nd November 1918), Herbert Phillips (see 18^th June 1918), Ezra Plumb (see 28^th October 1918), Ernest Potter (see 7^th July 1918), Edward Shaw Powell (see 1^st September 1918), Charles Frederick Riddial (see 5^th September 1918), William George Ruddock MM (see 18^th October 1918), Thomas Wilson Shaw (see 29^th June 1918), James Slinger (see 25^th August 1918), Herbert Stanley Smith (see 5^th October 1918), Albert Stanley (see 25^th February 1918), Harry Stephenson (see 26th August 1918), James Sugden (see 25^th August 1918), Charles Sidney Taylor (see 7^th January), John Chadwick Taylor (see 26^th November 1918), Arthur Wallis (see 17^th October 1916), Walter Gee Wardley (see 20^th September 1918), William Herbert Websdale (see 2^nd June 1918), Alfred Whittaker (see 20^th November 1918), Herbert John Wicks (see 18^th December 1918), Arthur Thomas Wilford (see 6^th December 1918) and Irvin Wilkinson (see below).

In the absence of a surviving service record for  Irvin Wilkinson I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish any details of his service.

After this draft left the average ration strength of the Battalion stood at 120. Pte. Harold Charnock (see 5^th February) remembered that “Few men were left and little training was possible”.  

Pte. Reginald Dayson (see 7^th January), who had been convicted of absence without leave by a Field General Court Martial, was handed over to the Assistant Provost Martial, XIV Corps, to be despatched to no.1 Military Prison at Rouen.

Pte. Herbert Jacklin (see 8^th December 1918) was transferred to 69^th Trench Mortar Battery. The next day he would be admitted via 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia; he was suffering from jaundice.

Sgt. Lionel Vickers (see 6^th February) and Ptes. Harry Briggs (19286) (see 15^th February), Tim Helliwell (see 9^th February), Frank Tucker (see 9^th February), Frank Wood MM (see 9^th February) and Edwin Wright (see 8^th February) were posted back to England for demobilization. Vickers and Helliwell would be demobilized from Clipstone; Tucker from Fovant and Wright from Ripon.

Lt. George Clifford Sugden MC (see 15^th February), who was en route to England on one months’ leave, was admitted to 2^nd General Hospital at Le Havre suffering from laryngitis which “resulted from a ‘cold’ contracted in November 1918 when he remained in wet clothes for three days on end on active service”. Next day he would be posted back to England and, on arrival in England, would be admitted to 1^st Southern General Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham.

L.Cpl. John Henry Crawshaw (see 27^th December 1918), serving in France with 1^st/7^th DWR, was posted back to England for demobilization.

Pte. Robert Henry Arnold MM (see 21^st October 1918), who was on leave in England, was demobilized from the Dispersal Unit in Oswestry.

Ptes. William Havery (see 19^th January), James Arthur Markinson MM (see 4^th January) Frank Patterson (see 17^th January), John Sunderland (see 21^st January), Henry Tate (see below) and Norman Woodhouse (see 17^th January) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Henry Tate had originally served with 2DWR and had first gone to France in May 1915, before being transferred (date and details unknown) to 10DWR. In the absence of surviving service records I am unable to make a positive identification of either man or establish any details of their service.

Henry Tate had originally served with 2DWR and had first gone to France in May 1915, before being transferred (date and details unknown) to 10DWR. In the absence of surviving service records I am unable to make a positive identification of either man or establish any details of their service.

Sgt. Harry Clark (see 14^th October 1918) and Ptes. George Herbert Lant (see 6^th July 1918), Herbert Willis Pickles (see 29^th September) and John Stenson (see 5^th December 1918), who had been serving with 3DWR at North Shields, were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Cpl. Robert Yates and Pte. Joseph Woofenden (see 11^th July 1916) were also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. Both had originally served with 10DWR before being transferred (date and details unknown) to 2DWR. In the absence of surviving service records I am unable to make a positive identification of either man or establish any details of their service.

Pte. John William Beaver MM (see 14^th September 1916) was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he had been an original member of 10DWR but at some point (date and details unknown) had been transferred to the Labour Corps.

Pte. John Beaumont (see 31^st October 1918), who had been serving with the Army Service Corps, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

L.Cpl. William Neville Dawson (see 22^nd August 1918), serving with 16^th (Transport Workers) Battalion York and Lancasters, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Monday 17th February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

Pte. John William Addison (see 4^th August 1918) was admitted via 70^th Field Ambulance to 39^th Casualty Clearing Station, suffering from an abscess in his left groin; a minor operation would be performed to drain the abscess.

Ptes. Henry Grimshaw (see 13^th October 1918) and Herbert Sloane MM (see 24^th January) completed and signed their ‘Statement as to disability’ forms, which were a precursor to their being posted back to England. The completed forms, which confirmed that they did not claim to have suffered any disability in service, were witnessed by 2Lt. Wilfred Frederick John Thomson MC (see 16^th February).

Pte. Frederick William Warner (see 16^th January) was transferred from 62^nd General Hospital in Marseilles to 57^th General Hospital, also in Marseilles; he was suffering from scabies. 

Gnr. Harry Beaumont (see 27^th July 1917), who was home on leave from the Royal Garrison Artillery in France, was married, at the Church of St. John and St. Martin in Beverley, to Ethel May Malton; Harry Beaumont was the elder brother of Pte. Mark Beaumont (see 16^th December 1918), who was stationed in Malta, where he had been serving with 1^st Garrison Btn, Northumberland Fusiliers.

Ptes. James Crane (see 8^th September 1917) and Dan Moore (in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or establish any details of his service) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. 

Pte. William Harper (25972) MM (see 17^th January), who had been on leave in England, was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. 

Cpl. John Henry Eastwood (see 15^th January), who had been serving with the Chinese Labour Corps, was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was found to have suffered a 20% disability whilst in service, due to a hernia and haemorrhoids and was awarded a pension of 7s. 10d. per week, to be reviewed after 18 months.

Sgt. John Whalley (see 20^th January), who had been in England since having been taken ill in November 1918, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Fred Kershaw (see 18^th January), who had been in England since having been wounded in August 1918, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. James Bradley (18319) (see 3^rd May 1917), who had been a prisoner of war since May 1917, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; it is not known exactly when he had returned to England. 

L.Cpl. John Widdup (see 7^th August 1918), who had been serving with 322^nd Quarrying Company, Royal Engineers, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he was the brother of 2Lt. Harry Widdup (see 8^th March 1918).

Pte. Henry Wood Thrippleton (see 6^th October 1918), who had been serving in France with 259^th Employment Company, Labour Corps, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Sunday 16th February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

Orders were received that the Battalion was to provide a total of two officers and 59 other ranks who were to be transferred to 8^th Yorks. and Lancs., which Battalion, since November 1918, had been based at Fiume (now known as Rijeka), as part of the Allied Army of Occupation in previously Austrian-held territory. The Brigade was to supply seven officers and 710 men in total. The men were to be either volunteers or ‘those not eligible for demobilization’. A few days previously the Battalion had submitted a return, confirming that there were 143 men not eligible for demobilization. A list of names was required by 69^th Brigade HQ by 5pm on 17^th. The draft was to include two Sergeants, seven Corporals or Lance Corporals and five ‘waiting men’.

L.Sgt. George Heeley (see 18^th December 1918), L.Cpl. John Henderson (see 24^th January) and Ptes. Thomas Bates (see 24^th August 1918), Robert Fiedler (see 18^th August 1918), Robert Jackson (see 17^th November 1918), John William Pennells (see 14^th July 1918), Samuel Richards (see 8^th November 1918) and Alfred Shaw (see 24^th November 1918) completed and signed their ‘Statement as to disability’ forms, which were a precursor to their being posted back to England. The completed forms, which confirmed that they did not claim to have suffered any disability in service, were witnessed, for Heeley and Henderson by 2Lt. Wilfred Frederick John Thomson MC (see 15^th February) and for Bates, Fiedler, Jackson, Pennells and Richards, by 2Lt. Albert Joseph Acarnley MC (see 12^th January).

Sgt. Christopher Clapham MM (see 8^th February), L.Sgt. Albert Reynolds (see 8^th February), Cpl. Mark Butler (see 8^th February) and Ptes. William Dean (see 15^th September 1918), Joseph Dent (see 8^th February),  Harry Horner (see 20^th December 1918), Joseph Livesey (see 8^th February), James Longworth (see 18^th September 1918), James Edward Parkinson (see 8^th February), William Ward Pickles (see 8^th February), John Wright Pollard (see 8^th February), Arthur Simpson (201538) (see 8^th February) and David Twigg (see 8^th February) were posted back to England for demobilization; Clapham, Butler, Dent, Horner, Longworth, Pickles, Pollard and Simpson would be demobilized from Ripon; and Dean, Livesey and Parkinson from Prees Heath.

Pte. John Beckwith (see 23rd August 1918), serving in Italy with 9^th Battalion South Staffs., was posted back to England to the Regimental Depot in Lichfield.

Pte. Ben Pedder MM (see 24^th January), who was on leave in England, was transferred, initially to 3DWR at North Shields, and ten days later to the Regimental Depot at Halifax.

Pte. Harry Earnshaw (see 12^th December 1918), who had been in England for two months having been a prisoner of war in Germany since October 1917, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields. 

Ptes. Walter James Biddle (see 17^th January), Wilfred Cutts (see below), Harold Draper (see 4^th January), Henry Smith (13362), James Stott (see 2^nd January), Joseph Sutcliffe (see below) and Harry (Thomas Henry) Walton (see 26^th August 1918) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. 

In the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of Wilfred Cutts or establish any details of his service. Henry Smith had been an original member of 10DWR, but in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or establish any details of his service. Joseph Sutcliffe had originally served with 8DWR, going to Gallipoli with the Battalion in September 1915. In the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to identify when, and under what circumstances, he had been transferred to 10DWR.


L.Cpl. James Barker (12288) (see 10^th January), who had been serving with 2^nd Reserve Battalion Machine Gun Corps, based at Belton Park, Grantham, was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. Having had the little finger of his left hand amputated as a result of wouds he was assessed as having suffered a 20% disability and was awarded a one-off gratuity payment of £35.

Cpl. Fred Hopkinson (see 19^th January 1917), serving with the Army Ordnance Corps, was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Ptes. Clement Ambler Broadbent (see below), Patrick Conley (see 8^th October 1918) and Thomas Hart (see 24^th June 1917), serving with the Labour Corps, were also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.    

Clement Ambler Broadbent was 26 years old and from Halifax where he had worked as a labourer before joining the army. He had been an original member of 10DWR, but in the absence of a surviving service record I am unble to establish any details of his service, or when, or under what circumstances, he had been transferred to the Labour Corps.

Saturday 15th February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

Ptes. Ben Butler (see 11^th August 1918), John Eastwood (see 3^rd June 1918) and Albert Edward White (see 2^nd December 1918) completed and signed their ‘Statement as to disability’ forms, which were a precursor to their being posted back to England. The completed forms, which confirmed that they did not claim to have suffered any disability in service, were witnessed by 2Lt. Wilfred Frederick John Thomson MC (see 14^th February). Pte. Harry Briggs (19286) (see 29^th October 1918), serving at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia, also signed a similar form.

Lt. George Clifford Sugden MC (see 1^st February) departed for England on one months’ leave.

Sgt. Charles Marsden (see 6^th February), L.Cpl. Harry Seward (see 6^th February) and Ptes. Francis James Barnes (see 14^th February), Alfred Bottom (see 14^th February), William George Clements (see 15^th February), Colonel Craven (see 14^th February), Arthur William Drane (see 14^th February), Joseph Hadley (see 14^th February), William McEvoy (see 28^th October 1918) and Leonard Beaconsfield Turner (see 15^th February) were posted to England to be demobilized. They would embark from Le Havre on 20^th February, onboard the Peel Castle. Marsden and Turner would be demobilized from Clipstone; Drane and Seward from Wimbledon; Bottom and Craven from Ripon; and Barnes, Clements and Hadley from Chiseldon.

Pte. Fred Angus (see 5^th August 1918), serving with 91^st Prisoner of War Company at Etaples, was posted back to England to be demobilized.

Pte. Frederick Abbot (see 31^st January), recovering from bronchitis at the Military Convalescent Hospital at Crownhill, Plymouth, was examined with a view to being demobilized. The examining medical officer reported that Pte. Abbot was, “Fairly fit now, apart from some dyspnoea of long standing. Some moist sounds over back between scapulae. Heart clear, pulse 60. Fond of alcohol and tobacco”. He was deemed to have suffered no impairment whilst in service and was discharged for demobilization.

Capt. Charles George Edward White (see 19^th June 1918), who was serving with the DLI, relinquished his temporary rank of Captain, and reverted to Lieutenant.

Sgt. Harry Holmes MM (see 31^st January) and Ptes. Harold Clifford Ashbrook (see 31^st January), Robert Baldwin (see 10^th June 1918) and John Hargreaves (18009) (see 31^st January) who were on leave in England, were officially struck off the strength of 10DWR. Holmes, Baldwin and Hargreaves were transferred to 3DWR at North Shields; Ashbrook was demobilized from Heaton Park.

Sgt. William Henry Dobson MM (see 22^nd November 1918), L.Cpls. Harry Bailey (25248) (see 18^th January) and Frank Dodgson (see 29^th December 1918) and Ptes. Edward Anderson (see 29^th December 1918), William James Bates (16997) (see below), Alfred Fishlock (see 18^th January), Hugh Stacey Norris (see 8^th September 1917), William Robinson (18660) and Sidney Christopher Hugh Williams (see 4^th January) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

In the absence of surviving service records I am unable to make a positive identification of either William James Bates or William Robinson or to establish any details of their service.


Pte. Joe Beaumont (see 20^th September 1917), who had been serving with 2DWR, was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. William Brassington (see 23^rd May 1916) was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. After having been wounded in May 1916 while serving with 10DWR he had served with 2DWR, 2/4^th DWR and 1^st/4^th DWR. 

CQMS Andrew Hermiston (see 16^th December 1918), L.Cpl. Stanley Basil Studd (see 21^st November 1917) and Pte. Harry Crawshaw (see 16^th August 1918), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, were also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. 

Pte. Percival Albert Wiggins (see 16^th January), who had been on attachment from 3DWR to 115^th Training Reserve Battalion at Clipstone Camp, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. 

Pte. Albert Crooks was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to sickness; he was awarded a pension of 16s. per week, with his disability assessed as being 40%. He was from Golcar, near Huddersfield and had enlisted in December 1915, aged 24. He had served with 10DWR before being transferred to 1^st/7^th DWR. In the absence of a surviving service record it has not been possible to establish any details of his service or of the nature of his illness.

A payment of £10 5s. 7d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Cpl.  James Edward Simpson (see 11^th October 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1918 while serving in France with 2^nd/7^th DWR; the payment would go to his married sister, Elizabeth Warburton.

Friday 14th February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

A second Divisional horse race meeting was held (see 5^th February).

Ptes. Francis James Barnes (see 4^th August 1918), Alfred Bottom (see 10^th September 1918), William George Clements (see 9^th December 1918), Colonel Craven (see 10^th September 1918), Arthur William Drane (see 10^th December 1918), Joseph Hadley (see 5^th January) and Leonard Beaconsfield Turner (see 29^th June 1918) completed and signed their ‘Statement as to disability’ forms, which were a precursor to their being posted back to England. The completed forms, which confirmed that they did not claim to have suffered any disability in service, were witnessed by 2Lt. Wilfred Frederick John Thomson MC (see 13^th February). Pte. Craven was also ordered to be deprived of three days’ pay (reason unknown).

Cpl. Ernest Reeve (25923) (see 5^th February), L.Cpls. Alfred Ellis (see 5^th February) and Fred Riddiough (see 5^th February) and Ptes. Arthur Clarke (see 5^th February), Benjamin Fawcett (see 24th December 1918), Thomas Fielden (see 5^th February) and Walter Milnes (see 5^th February)  were posted to England to be demobilized. Reeve would be demobilized from Wimbledon and Clarke and Fielden and Milnes from Clipstone.

Pte. Joseph Wilkinson (see 19^th November), serving at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia, was also posted back to England for demobilization; he would be demobilized from Clipstone Camp.

Pte. Fred Sutcliffe (see 17^th December 1918) was discharged from Merryflats War Hospital, Govan, Glasgow and posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. Richard Butler MM (see 7^th November 1918), serving with 543^rd Agricultural Company, underwent a medical examination at Fulwood Military Hospital, Preston, in preparation for discharge. The examining officer found, “Total loss of vision in left eye due to perforating injury, with secondary optic nerve atrophy. Paresis of extra-ocular muscles. Will not recover”; he recommended 50% compensation.

L.Cpl. Enoch Wilson Rhodes MM (see 31^st May 1918) and Ptes. Albert Edward Beasley (see 8^th September 1917), Jack Edgar Hall (see 11^th February), Thomas Charles Jaques MM (see 24^th January), Robert Tanfield (see below), Richard Taylor (13381) (see below) and Herbert Williams (see 17^th January) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Robert Tanfield and Richard Taylor had both been original members of 10DWR but, in the absence of surviving service records, I am unable to make a positive identification of either man or to establish any details of their military service.

Sgt. Ellis Rigby (see 17^th January), who had been in training for a commission, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Frank Demaine (see 15^th Dcember 1918), who had been serving with 2DWR, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Fred Slater (see 27^th November 1917), who had been wounded in November 1917 while serving with 2/7^th DWR, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to his wounds; he was awarded a pension of 13s. 9d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Thursday 13th February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

Pte. William Douglas (see 18^th December 1918) was admitted to 51^st Stationary Hospital at Arquata Scrivia; he was suffering from a corneal ulcer. He would be discharged after four days and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

Sgt. Herbert Parkin (see 16^th September 1918), A/Cpl. Hiram Tasker (see 28^th October 1918) and Pte. Joseph McDermott (see 6^th October 1918) completed and signed their ‘Statement as to disability’ forms, which were a precursor to their being posted back to England. The completed forms, which confirmed that they did not claim to have suffered any disability in service, were witnessed, for Parkin and McDermott by Capt. Henry Kelly VC, MC (see 12^th February) and for Tasker by 2Lt. Wilfred Frederick John Thomson MC (see 12^th February).

Pte. Nathaniel Bather (see 19^th December 1918) was transferred from “Caesar’s Camp” at Arquata Scrivia to Taranto, in Southern Italy; the details of this posting are unknown.

Pte. Leonard Pankhurst (see 7^th October 1918), who had been in hospital in Italy since October 1918, suffering from influenza, was evacuated to England; the details of his treatment are unknown.

Mr. F. Binnall wrote in reference to Pte. Herbert Archer (see 28^th November 1918), who had been in England since having been wounded on 27^th October 1918, stating his offer of employment to Pte. Archer, who had worked for him before joining the Army. “I am willing to give employment to Pte. Archer if he can get his discharge from hospital at any time. If he is not strong enough for the work he did before enlisting I can find him a light job until he is stronger. Wages to be paid according and his cottage is ready for him as I have kept the place for him and should be glad to have him back”.  

CSM Frank Shelah Gilleard MC (see 2^nd December 1918), CQMS Edgar Shuttleworth (see 17^th January), A/Sgt. Kenyon Bradbury (see below), Cpl. Alfred Frankland (see 13^th September 1918) and Ptes. Wilson Eilbeck (see below), Joe Norris (see below) and Tom Smith (see 18^th January) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. CSM Gilleard would be awarded an Army pension of 16s. per week, on the grounds that he had a suffered a 30% disability as a result of the wounds he had suffered.

Kenyon Bradbury had been an original member of 10DWR, having enlisted aged 24 and working as a chainmaker in Marsden, near Huddersfield; in the absence of a surviving service record, I am unable to establish any details of his service. Wilson Eilbeck was 28 years old and originally from Hensingham, Cumberland. He had served with 1^st/4^th DWR before being transferred to 10DWR but, in the absence of a surviving service record, I am unable to establish any details of his service. In the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of Joe Norris. He had previously served with 1^st/7^th DWR, 8DWR and 2DWR, but I am unable to establish any details of his service.

CSM Bob Harrison (see 30^th November 1917) was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z having, at some point previously (date and details unknown) been attached to 53^rd (Young Soldier) Battalion, Yorkshire Light Infantry, a training battalion based at Clipstone Camp.

Cpl. George Henry Hansford MM (see 4^th December 1918), who had been serving with 3DWR, was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Charles Lupton was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He had been an original member of 10DWR but at some point (date and details unknown) had been transferred to the Labour Corps. In the absence of a surviving service record, I am unable make a positive identification of this man or to establish any details of his service.

Pte. Duncan Kendrick was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to sickness aggravated whilst in service; he was awarded a pension (amount and details unknown) on account of heart problems and bronchitis. He was a married man, originally from Exeter and had been an original member of the Battalion, having enlisted in October 1914, aged 39. In the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to establish any further details of his service.

A payment of £9 19s. 3d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Victor Hillam (see 26^th August 1918), who had been killed in action on 26^th August 1918 while serving in France with 9DWR; the payment would go to his mother, Mary Ellen Hillam. She would also receive a package of her late son’s personal effects, comprising of, “photos, cards, wallet, note book”.

A package was despatched containing the personal effects of the late Pte. Harry Clay (see 19^th December 1918), who had been killed in action on 26^th August 1918 while serving in France with 9DWR; the package would go to his mother, Mary, and comprised of, “2 wallets, photos, postcards, letters, 2 certificates, memorial ribbon, cigarette case”.