Tuesday 22nd January 1918

In Brigade Reserve at Pederiva

Pte. Thomas Prince (see 6^th January) re-joined the Battalion from 23^rd Division Rest Station, following treatment for inflammation of his right hand.

L.Cpl. Albert Edward White (see 12^th December 1917) was reported by Sgt. Alfred Dolding (see 25th November 1917) and Thomas Anthony Swale (see 29^th December 1917) for “hesitating to comply with an order, ie when ordered to parade mess orderlies, hesitated to do so”; on the orders of Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 18^th January) he would be deprived of his Lance Corporal’s rank and reduced to Private.

Pte. Horace Trinder (see 10^th January) was transferred from 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera to 57^th General Hospital at Marseilles; he was suffering from pneumonia.

Pte. Percival Albert Wiggins (see 4^th January), who was home on leave, was admitted to 3^rd Southern General Hospital in Oxford, suffering from ‘trench foot’.

Cpl. Horace Dewis MM (see 17^th December 1917), who had been in England since having been wounded on 20^th September 1917, married Eliza Young in Keighley.

A request was made for Maj. Harry Robert Hildyard (see 3^rd August 1917), who had been the original senior officer of Tunstill’s Company but who was now serving with 9^th Battalion Royal Defence Corps at Easington, to be released to take up duties as an administrative officer with an Officer Cadet Battalion. The request would be rejected and Hildyard remained with the RDC.

Pte. Lewis Greenwood (see 20^th December 1917), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, re-joined his Battalion, having been posted as a deserter a month previously.

Pte. Matthew Henry Jubb (see 19^th December 1917), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was reported “absent from parade at 6.15pm until 9.15pm”; he would be confined to barracks for three days. 

2Lt. Godfrey Isaacs (see 20^th November 1917) was examined by a specialist at 4^th London General Hospital (Neurological Officers Section); the specialist’s report recommended that he be “discharged from the service as unlikely to improve”. His symptoms were stated as being, “Neurasthenia: headaches, stammer, giddiness, cannot be left in open air, depressed, not improving after six months in hospital”.

A payment of £4 2s. 9d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Cpl. Joseph Bowles (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September; the payment would go to his widow, Mary, for herself and their daughter.

A payment of £8 19s. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Cpl. Fred Davis (see 22^nd September), who had died of wounds on 22^nd September; the payment would go to his father, James.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Sgt. George Peacock (see 27^th September 1917), who had died of wounds in June 1917; his mother, Jane, was awarded 10s. per week.

Sgt. George Peacock

Image by kind permission of Andy Wade and MenOfWorth

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. James Buckley Kenworthy (see 7^th June 1917), who had been officially missing in action since 7^th June 1917; his mother, Ada, was awarded 6s. per week.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Christopher Tinker Sykes (see 27^th October), who had been killed in action in June 1917; his father, Anthony, was awarded 7s. 6d. per week.