Thursday 12th December 1918

Billets at Arzignano

A Brigade boxing competition was held in the theatre at Arzignano. Battalion Chaplain, Rev. Hugh Wilfrid Todd (see 9^th December) would be one of the two judges appointed for the bouts and the Battalion was represented by L.Sgt. George Alma Cook (see 5^th December) and Pte. William Sugden (see 21^st March) at lightweight and Pte.  John Wright Pollard (see 28^th November) at featherweight. The full results are unknown, but both Cook and Sugden would be awarded ‘good losers medals’.

Pte. Richard Harrison (see 12^th November), who had been wounded on 27^th October, was evacuated to England, travelling onboard the hospital ship St. Andrew.

Pte. John William Farrer (see 27^th October), who had been wounded on 27^th October, was evacuated to England; the details of his treatment are unknown.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 27^th October), who had been wounded on 27^th October while second-in-command of 11^th Northumberland Fusiliers, was also evacuated to England, travelling from Le Havre to Southampton. On arrival in England he would be admitted to 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth.

Pte. Harry Earnshaw (see 16^th October 1917), who had been a prisoner of war in Germany since October 1917, was repatriated to England and posted to the Regimental Depot at Halifax.

The Infantry Records Office in York forwarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal due to CSM Albert Blackburn DCM (see 2^nd December) to Northern Command Depot at Ripon, ready for presentation. CSM Blackburn was on leave at home at the time and so the medal would be forwarded to him at home in Bradford; he would acknowledge receipt of the medal on 19^th December.

Pte. Arthur Atherton was formally discharged from the army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds. He was a labourer from Shipley and had enlisted in December 1915, aged 23. In the absence of a surviving service record it has not been possible to establish any details of his service with 10DWR or of the date, circumstances or nature of his wounds. However, it is known that he he had also served with 2^nd/4^th DWR after 10DWR.