Sunday 29th December 1918

Billets at Morando

CQMS Edgar Shuttleworth (see 27^th November), L.Cpl. Frank Dodgson (see 28^th October) and Ptes. Edward Anderson (see 18^th December 1917), Arthur Newton (see 1^st September), Herbert Williams (see 15^th November) and Norman Woodhouse (see 25^th November 1917) departed on two weeks’ leave to England.

The process of preparing men for their return to England and demobilization was now accelerated. CSM Stanley Vyvyan Golledge (see 28^th October) and Ptes. George Chamberlain (see 4^th January), William Hutchinson (see 22^nd December), Simpson Phillips (see 1^st August) and William Percy Smith (see 9^th June) completed and signed their ‘Statement as to disability’ forms, which were a precursor to their being posted back to England. The completed forms, which confirmed that they did not claim to have suffered any disability in service, were witnessed by 2Lt. William Johnson Simpson MC (see 22^nd December). The same forms were also completed by Ptes. Michael Hannigan (see 20^th September), William Little (see 1^st September), William Henry Luke (see 18^th November), Sidney Guy Mealing (see 20^th November) and Thomas Warburton (see 24^th December); in their cases, the forms were witnessed by Capt. Frederick Lowther Dawson Barker (see 23^rd August). 

2Lt. John William Pontefract (see 20^th November), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, wrote to the War Office to request a wound gratuity.

Sgt. Wilson Allinson (see 25^th October), who had been posted back to England two months previously, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Having served a sentence of 23 days’ detention for having been absent without leave from 3DWR at North Shields, Pte. James Kilburn (see 14^th December) was released from the Detention Barracks in York and posted back to 3DWR at North Shields.

On the expiry of his period of hospital leave, Pte. John William Mallinson (see 19^th December) failed to report as scheduled to 3DWR at North Shields; he would report himself four days later and be ordered to forfeit four days’ pay.