Tuesday 1st July 1919

Lt. Eric Dixon (see 26^th February), serving with the RAF, was transferred to 11 Training Squadron, based at Old Sarum.

Lt. Eric Dixon

Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum

Monday 30th June 1919

Pte. Fred Clayton (see 5^th March), serving with 505^th Prisoner of War Company at San Bonifacio, departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

Lt. George Reginald Percy MC (see 12^th March 1917), serving with the Royal Engineers, formally relinquished his commission ‘on completion of service’; he would take up employment with the Public Works Department in Bagan Serai, in modern day Malaysia.

Lt. George Reginald Percy (back right)

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Sunday 29th June 1919

Nothing to report regarding 10DWR

Saturday 28th June 1919

Lt. Leopold Henry Burrow (see 25^th July 1918), serving at no.14 Convalescent Depot at Trouville, departed for England on two weeks’ leave; his leave would later be extended by a further week.

Pte. Joseph Barnes (see 3^rd June), who had been on leave to England while serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, failed to report back on time from his leave; he would not report until 11^th July and would be ordered to forfeit 13 days’ pay and undergo 14 days’ Field Punishment no. 2.

Pte. James Pidgeley (see 21^st April) was posted back to England from Italy for demobilization; however, having reached Boulogne, he would remain in France (reason unknown).

Cpl. Sidney Twine MSM (see 1^st January) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Maj. Herbert Henry Hudson DSO, MC (see 31^st May), who had briefly commanded 10DWR in June/July 1917, formally relinquished his commission; having been released from the Army a month previously, he had already returned to India to resume his employment with a railway company.

Sgt. Wilson Allinson MM (see 21^st March), who had been serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was assessed as having suffered 30% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 9s. 9d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Pte. Charles Walton (see 2^nd December 1918), who had been at the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital, Bellahouston since having been wounded on 11^th September 1918, was also formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was assessed as having suffered 50% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 13s. 9d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Friday 27th June 1919

Pte. George William Ball (see 21^st April), serving at Arquata Scrivia with the Military Foot Police, departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

Maj. Stephen Minchin Mercer, ASC (see 16^th April 1917), who had taken a prominent role in raising recruits in the Craven area in the Autumn of 1914, died at 2^nd Northern General Hospital, Beckett Park, Leeds; he was 63 years old and his cause of death was stated as being, “liver abscess, old dysenteric purulent pericarditis”.

Thursday 26th June 1919

Pte. John William Kirby (see 15^th April), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, was appointed (unpaid) Lance Corporal.

Wednesday 25th June 1919

L.Cpl. Christopher Leigh (see 27^th July 1917), who had been serving with the Military Foot Police, was transferred to the Army reserve Class Z; he would be subsequently assessed as having suffered a 20% disability due to neurasthenia and would be awarded an Army Pension.

Pte. Arthur Holden (see 2^nd December 1918), who had been in England since having been wounded in October 1918, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds to his left arm; he was assessed as having suffered an 80% disability and was awarded an Army pension of £1 7s. 4d. per week.

Letters of administration in the estate of his late son were granted to Thomas Whitaker, father of the late 2Lt. Samuel Whitaker (see 23^rd April) who had died from ‘influenza and broncho-pneumonia’ shortly after returning home from Italy in February; his estate was valued at £200.