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Sunday 25 November 2018

Tuesday 26th November 1918

In billets at Montecchia di Crosara and Grumolo. 

Cpl. James Hotchkiss (see 1st September) was promoted Lance Sergeant.
Ptes. Samuel Lawton Birtles (see 9th November), Alfred Ellis (see 11th November), William Douglas (see 18th September), William Gordon Johnston (see 4th November), William James Nunn (see 18th November), Ernest Portman (see 26th October), John Chadwick Taylor (see 9th August), Joseph Barber Taylor (see 18th November) and Jonas Yoxall (see 1st October) re-joined the Battalion from the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.
Pte. John Walter Gethen (see 14th August) was discharged from 62nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.
Pte. William Ley (see 9th November) was discharged from 38th Stationary Hospital in Genoa and posted to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano.
Pte. Milton Wood (see 14th December 1917), serving in France with 2nd/5th DWR, departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

Pte. John Henshall (see 6th August), serving in India with 1DWR, was admitted to hospital (details unknown), suffering from ‘headache’ and a high temperature.

Pte. Albert Ellis (see 27th September), serving at Archangel with 2nd/7th Durham Light Infantry, was reported as having been drunk on duty. He would be tried by Field General Court Martial, found guilty and sentenced to six weeks’ Field Punishment no.2.
Pte. Mark Beaumont (see 30th June), serving with 27th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry at Herne Bay, was transferred to 1st Garrison Btn, Northumberland Fusiliers and posted to Malta to join the Battalion.
Pte. Fred Richmond (see 23rd June 1917), serving with 488th (Home Service) Employment Company, Labour Corps at Brocton, was transferred to 475th Company, at Ripon.
Pte. Harry Gordon Binns MM (see 14th June) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer fit for service due to wounds; he was awarded a pension of 9s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.
Pte. Horace James Nurse (see 8th September 1917) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer fit for service due to wounds; in the absence of a surviving service record it has not been possible to establish when, or under what circumstances, he had been wounded.
A second payment, of 1s. 10d. was authorised, being a further amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Cpl. Thomas Mullaney (see 1st February), who had been killed in action on 20th September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.
The London Gazette published official notice of a number of Italian gallantry awards made to members of 10DWR:
Italian Silver Medal for Valour to Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 23rd November).
Italian Bronze Medal for Valour to Pte. Joseph Alfred Formby (see 31st July) and Sgt. Ellis Rigby (see 22nd August).

Italian Croce di Guerre to 2Lt. Keith Sagar Bain (see 15th November) and 2Lt. Wilfred Frederick John Thomson (see 26th August).


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