Billets at Sossano.
The Battalion marched a further eleven miles north via Ponte
di Barbarano and Ponte di Castegnero to Longare. Pte. Harold Charnock (see 22nd
November) remembered that, “Headquarters occupied a palatial but very cold
villa”.
It was around this time, though the precise date has not
been established, that Lt. Charles
Frederick Wolfe (see 7th
September), former Transport Officer to 10DWR, who had subsequently served
with the Army Service Corps, was posted back to England.
Capt. Bob Perks
DSO (see 21st November),
serving with 3DWR at North Shields, again wrote to his father; on this occasion
his thoughts were on some apparent confusion as to his rank and pay. “Thanks
very much for to-day’s letter but it is wrongly addressed after all! The adjutant says I am to keep up my pips
according to the new rule and that the gazette notice is only to enable Cox to
take off my pay while in hospital. He will also help me to get paid. At present Cox are rather kicking - want me gazetted again. I don’t think I
shall be though. It seems a funny sort
of unexpected procedure grafted onto the old one. I don’t think anyone knows exactly where they
are. Otherwise it makes no difference to me here. Another Captain has turned up
but has not got a Company”.
(I am greatly indebted
to Janet Hudson for her kind permission to allow me to quote from Bob Perks’
correspondence).
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Capt. Bob Perks DSO
Image by kind permission of Janet Hudson
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Pte. Albert William
Knight (see 26th September),
serving with 2/6th DWR, re-joined his Battalion after spending two
months in hospital.
A pension award was made in the case of the late Sgt. John Hudson (see 14th September), who had been killed in action on 23rd May; his mother, Mary, was awarded 10s. per week.
The War Office again wrote to Mary Ann Green, the partner,
though not the wife, of Pte. Thomas
Bates (see 21st November).
On this occasion they requested a death certificate for Bates’ first wife.
A pension award was made in the case of the late Sgt. John Hudson (see 14th September), who had been killed in action on 23rd May; his mother, Mary, was awarded 10s. per week.
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| Sgt. John Hudson |
An appeal was made in the Craven Herald for news of Pte. John
William Whitfield (see 9th
October), who had been reported wounded and missing in October while
serving with 8DWR and would subsequently be confirmed as having been killed in
action;
NEWS WANTED OF LINTON SOLDIER
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Whitfield. of Linton, are anxious to
obtain news of their son, Pte John William Whitfield, 15182, Duke of
Wellington's Regiment, 'W' Co., No. 3 platoon. He was reported wounded in
Prance on the 9th, and since then his family have heard nothing of him. Perhaps
some of his comrades in France may have news of him, or one of the wounded in
hospital who see the local papers. If so the family will be grateful if news
could be sent to them at Linton, near Skipton.
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| Pte. John William Whitfield |
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