Sunday 22nd December 1918

Billets at Morando

Pte. Harold Charnock (see 2^nd December) would later recall that, “On the 22^nd the first party for demobilisation left”. This party included Lt. Vincent Edwards MC (see 27^th October) and Ptes. Thomas Henry Dixon (see 5^th July 1917), Walter William Ford (see 20^th July), Michael Langley (see 1^st March) and William Noel Simpson (see 26^th August). They were officially on two weeks’ leave, but would be demobilised once in England.

Pte. William Hutchinson (see 19^th December) was reported by L.Cpl. Lawrence William Hinchcliffe (see 1^st December) as “absent from roll call 9pm until found in billets at 9.50pm”; on the orders of 2Lt. William Johnson Simpson MC (see 18^th December) he would be confined to barracks for three days.

Pte. John George Inshaw (see 11^th November), serving at the Trench Mortar School at Arquata Scrivia, departed on two weeks’ leave to England.

Sgt. Wilfred Fletcher (see 4^th December) was transferred from 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia, to 57^th General Hospital in Marseilles.

Pte. Newton Dobson (see 27^th October) was transferred from 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia, to 81^st General Hospital in Marseilles.

Pte. John Cronin (see 24^th November), who was on leave in England, was officially struck off the strength of 10DWR and demobilized from the Dispersal Centre at Wimbledon.