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Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Thursday 21st November 1918


In billets and tents at San Giovanni Ilarione.


Sgt. John William Dickinson (see 1st November) was posted from ‘I’ Infantry Base Depot at Etaples to undertake duty at no.5 Military Prison at Les Attaques.
Ptes. Frederick McKell (see 4th October) and Ernest Thorn (see 14th September), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, were posted back to France; they were initially to have joined 9DWR, but would in fact be posted to 1st/7thDWR.


L.Cpl. Stanley Basil Studd (see 9th October), serving at the Regimental Depot in Halifax, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.
Pte.  Arthur Wood (29040) (see 26th September), serving at Northern Command Depot at Ripon, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields. 
Catherine Fielden, widow of the late Pte. Frederick Fielden (see 9th November), who had died of wounds on 6th September, was re-married, at Halifax Parish Church, to John Lewis Hanson. Pte. Fielden had dictated a new will shortly before his death, removing all reference to his wife.
A payment of 6s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Sgt. Fred Light Pashley (see 24th May), who had been posted ‘missing in action’ on 20th September 1917; there had been an exchange of correspondence regarding who should be the beneficiaries and, in the event, the payment would go to his mother, Annie.
A second payment, of 1s. 6d. was authorised, being a further amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Thomas Cragg (see 29th October) who had been killed in action while serving with 1st/7th DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Annie.
Pte. Thomas Cragg

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