Saturday 21st December 1918

Billets at Morando

2Lt. Percival Victor Thomas (see 9^th October 1917) left the Battalion to take up duties (details unknown) with 23^rd Division HQ. During his time with 10DWR, according to the subsequent statement of Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 26^th November), 2Lt. Thomas, “gave me satisfaction in the performance of his duties so far as his health permitted … I consider it my duty to state that this officer’s health was so bad that I considered him unfit for combatant duty”.

L.Cpl. Richard Cleasby Chorley (see 16^th November) was transferred from 16^th Convalescent Depot, Marseilles, to Etaples, where he would remain for a week before being posted back to England for employment with the Ministry of Labour, based at Northern Command Depot, Ripon.

Pte. Harry Hartley (see 26^th January), serving in France with 1^st Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers, departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

Pte. Arthur Baxter (see 19^th August 1916), who had been a prisoner of the Germans since 29^th July 1916, was among a number of men repatriated to England. He would be granted two months’ leave before then reporting to the Regimental Depot in Halifax. Sgt. Harry Singleton (see 8^th September), who had been taken prisoner in France in April while serving with 50^th Field Ambulance, was also repatriated; he was the brother of Robert Singleton (see 8^th September).

The Commander of the Officers University and Technical Classes in Oxford wrote to the War Office to inform that Lt. George Stuart Hulburd (see 18^th November) was attending a course at his institution and was not employed there.