Thursday 1st January 1920

Maj. Harry Robert Hildyard (see 24^th September 1918) formally relinquished his commission.

Pte. Gordon Field (see 25^th April 1919), who had been serving with 1^st (Garrison) Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Payment of a £4 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Albert Edward Everitt (see 16^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Henry.

Wednesday 31st December 1919

Ptes. Thomas Henry Bennett (see 1^st December), Tom Clay (see 1^st December), Joseph Harpin (see 14^th September) and James Frederick Palmer (see 14^th September), were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Herbert Newton (see 16^th October), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in October, wrote to the Infantry Records Office in York; “When I was demobilized from the Army they omitted to give me a character (reference), so, as I was in four different Battalions of the West Riding Regiment, I am writing to ask you to kindly forward one to the above address and oblige”.

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. John Cork (see 2^nd December 1917), who had been killed in action in August 1917 while serving with 2DWR; the payment would go to his father, Fred.

L.Cpl. John Cork

Tuesday 30th December 1919

Pte. Philip Pankhurst (see 26^th July), who had been serving with 2DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Sydney Daniel Stamper (see 5^th July 1917) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Cpl. William Henry Towers was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of wounds suffered in action. He was a colliery labourer, originally from Brighouse but had been living with his family in Sheffield when he had volunteered in August 1914. He had originally served with 2DWR and, in the absence of a surviving service record, it has not been possible to establish when he had joined 10DWR, the details of his wounding, or any details of his military service.

Payment of an £11 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. William Digby Stockdale (see 4^th January 1918), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Elizabeth.

Sgt. William Digby Stockdale

Payment of an £18 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Albert Christopher Benson (see 24^th May), who had been killed in action in September 1918; the payment would go to his mother, Annie Snowden (she had re-married in 1916).

Pte. Albert Christopher Benson

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Ernest Arthur Carter (see 9^th February 1918), who had been killed in action on 7^th June 1917; his widow, Eva, was awarded 13s. 9d. per week.

Monday 29th December 1919

Cpl. John Dalby (see 5^th September 1918), who had been serving in England since having been wounded in September 1918, was reported as absent from the Regimental Depot at Halifax; he would not report back until 5^th January and would be ordered to forfeit eight days’ pay.

Sunday 28th December 1919

Sgt. Arthur Manks (see 27^th November) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was assessed as having suffered a 5% disability in the form of ‘pains to his head’ attributable to the wound he had suffered in October 1915 and was awarded an Army pension of 6s 6d. per week, payable for six months.

Pte. Richard Harold Haresnape (see 21^st October), who had been serving with 8^th Battalion Yorks. and Lancs., was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.  

Saturday 27th December 1919

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Friday 26th December 1919

Pte. Thomas Martin Douglas (see 8^th March), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in March and was now employed as a carter, was married, at St. Mary’s Church, Eastwood, Keighley, to Minnie Plumb.

Thursday 25th December 1919

Lt. Robert Oswald Milligan (see 26^th May) formally relinquished his commission ‘on completion of service’; he had returned to South Africa and resumed work as a schoolmaster, giving his address as St. John’s College, Umtata, South Africa.

Wednesday 24th December 1919

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Tuesday 23rd December 1919

Pte. Fred Brook (see 11^th October 1918), who had been wounded while serving in France with 1^st/4^th DWR in October 1918, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was assessed as having suffered a 50% disability and was awarded an Army pension of £1 per week.

Pte. George Jones received a letter from the Dukes’ Regimental Depot in Halifax informing him that they were ‘in possession of a Princess Mary’s gift belonging to 11967 CSM William Jones (later commissioned as 2Lt. William Jones MM, see 4^th May), and as my name and address was recorded as next of kin … asked if I would accept the gift’. He would reply the same day, stating that, ‘I would be glad to receive the gift and would be pleased if they would furnish me with further information regarding my brother, when and where he died.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Alfred Rose Botterill (see 5^th February 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Annie.

The Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries wrote to the father of 2Lt. Isidore David Marks (see 15^th July), L.Cpl. James Kettlewell (see 25^th January 1917), who had been killed near Contalmaison in 1916, to inform him that “in the process of exhumation for the purpose of the concentration of isolated graves into cemeteries, the grave of Second Lieutenant I.D. Marks was located at a point about 2,000 yards south of Pozieres, North East of Albert and his remains have been re-interred Gordon Dump Cemetery, Sausage Valley, Ovillers-la-Boiselle, North-East of Albert. The new grave has been duly marked and registered. The re-burial has been carefully and reverently carried out”.

2Lt. Isidore David Marks

Monday 22nd December 1919

Payment of a £15 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Thomas Eastwood (see 4^th September 1917), who had died of wounds, sustained while serving with 11^th West Yorks., on 11^th June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Thomas.

Sunday 21st December 1919

Capt. Dick Bolton MC (see 5^th April), who had been in England since April, working for the War Office, completed and signed his Protection Certificate on being released from the Army. He completed the forms at the Dispersal Centre at Ripon and gave his future address as Manor Hill, Sutton Coldfield.

Capt. Dick Bolton MC

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

CSM Harry Dewhirst (see 9^th July), who had been serving with 42 Agricultural Depot at Halam, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was assessed as having suffered a 20% disability as a result of bronchial asthma attributable to his service and was awarded an Army pension of 10s. 8d. per week.

CSM Harry Dewhirst (back left)

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Ptes. Henry Edgar Grass (see 30^th October) and John Shone (see 10^th July 1916), who had been serving with 1DWR in India, were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Payment of a £4 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arthur Hird (see 25^th July 1918), who had died of wounds in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Margaret.

Saturday 20th December 1919

Lt. John Robert Dickinson (see 31^st January) formally relinquished his commission ‘on completion of service’.


Pte. William Sam Aldrich (see 17^th October) was formally discharged to the Army Reserve Class Z; he was also awarded an Army pension of 12s. 8d. per week, having been assessed as having suffered a 20% disability on account of ‘D.A.H.’ (D.A.H. was Disordered Action of the Heart' otherwise known as 'Soldier's Heart' or 'Effort Syndrome').


Pte. Arthur Smith (14204) (see 11^th September 1915) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of wounds suffered in action; he had had his left leg amputated. He had originally served with 10DWR and subsequently with 2^nd/7^th DWR, but, in the absence of a surviving service record, it has not been possible to establish any details of his military career.

Friday 19th December 1919

Pte. Ernest Perry (see 29^th July 1916) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He had been wounded in July 1916, but, in the absence of a surviving service record, the details of his subsequent service are unknown. However, he was awarded an Army pension (8s. per week) on the grounds of having suffered a 20% disability on account of malaria; this would suggest that he had most likely served with 1DWR in India. He was denied any additional pension in relation to the wound he had suffered in July 1916.

Pte. Johnny Smith (see 20^th September 1918), who had been serving in India with 1DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Johnny Smith

Payment of a £17 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. James Scott MM (14445) (see 30^th April 1918); who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Leah.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Robert Cheshire (see 30^th May 1917), who had been killed in action in February 1917; the payment would go to his brother, Gaythorne.


Payment of a £14 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Lever (see 15^th July 1918), who had died of wounds in January 1918 while serving with 9DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah Elizabeth.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Cyril Gilbert Perkin (see 8^th September 1916), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his widowed mother, Elizabeth.

Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Herbert Farrand Hogley (see 31^st December 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1918, while serving with 2DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Florence.

Payment of a £3 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Albert Victor Wilcock (see 17^th September 1918), who had been officially ‘missing in action’ since September 1917 and was now presumed dead; the payment would go to his widow, Sylvia.

Thursday 18th December 1919

Payment of an £18 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl.  James Edward Simpson (see 15^th February), who had been killed in action in October 1918 while serving in France with 2^nd/7^th DWR; the payment would go to his married sister, Elizabeth Warburton.

Wednesday 17th December 1919

A/CQMS James Allen (see 21^st October) and Ptes. Harry Beaumont (29306) (see 21^st October), James Frederick Coldwell (see 21^st October), Arthur Wallis (see 21^st October), John Walton (see 21^st October) and Irvin Wilkinson (see 21^st October), who had been serving with 8^th Battalion Yorks. and Lancs., were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.   

Pte. George Smith (25950) (see 24^th November 1918), who had been in England since having been wounded in October 1918, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was awarded an Army pension (amount and details unknown).

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late A/Sgt. James Collings (see 14^th May 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Mary Ann. 

Payment of an £18 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Frank Ernest Walton (see 15^th February 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his executor, his aunt and sole legatee, Mrs. Evelina Sanderson.

An increase was authorised in the weekly pension payable to the dependants of Pte. Robert Emson (see 14^th October), who had been killed in action in October 1916; his father, William, was to receive 8s. per week, rather than the 4s. which he had received hitherto.

Tuesday 16th December 1919

Pte. Walter Ralph (see 18^th September), serving in England with the West Yorkshire Regiment, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he was the elder brother of Pte. Kit Ralph (see 30^th April 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916.

Payment of a £15 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the the late Cpl. Thomas Lloyd (see 1^st May), who had been killed in action in October 1918 while serving in France with 1^st/7^th DWR; the payment would go to his adoptive mother, Mrs. Marian Bottomley, who was his sole residual legatee (presumably his brother, Charles, had died in the previous seven months).

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Ernest Hardcastle (see 6^th February 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, John.

Pte. Ernest Hardcastle

Payment of an £18 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the the late Pte. Harry Jackson (10796) (see 22^nd April 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917. Although he had served under the name ‘Harry Jackson’, his real name had in fact been Morris Kayles and the payment would go to his father, Israel Kayles.

Payment of a £19 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Northrop (see 21^st May), who had been killed in action in August 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah Anne. 

Monday 15th December 1919

L.Cpl. William Noel Simpson MM (see 23^rd February), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Herbert Crowther Kershaw (see 21^st October), who had been serving with 8^th Battalion Yorks. and Lancs., was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. 

Northamptonshire Constabulary wrote to the Infantry Records Office in York requesting a reference and a copy of the ‘Company Conduct Sheet’ relating to Pte. Walter Norman (see 11^th December), who had applied for employment with the police.

Payment of a £28 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. James Leach (see 11^th October), who had died, from influenza and pneumonia in January; the payment would go to his widow, Isabel.

Payment of a £14 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. John Matthewson Richard Grieves (see 15^th June 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his sister, Rosina E. Grieves.

Payment of a £12 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Beswick (see 15^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.

Payment of a £4 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Albert Edward Carter (see 18^th September), who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Lily, for herself and her two children.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harry Cowper (see 23^rd August 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his father, James.

Pte. Harry Cowper

Sunday 14th December 1919

Ptes. Edwin Haley (see 21^st October), Albert Edward Victor Harris (see 21^st October), Ernest Potter (see 21^st October), Clarence Smith (see 21^st October), Albert Stanley (see 21^stOoctober), and Arthur Thomas Wilford (see 21^st October), who had been serving with 8^th Battalion Yorks. and Lancs., were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.  

Payment of a £3 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Clifford Orchard (see 5^th April 1918) who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Myrtle.

Saturday 13th December 1919

Pte. John William Bonner MM (see 27^th October 1918) was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was assessed as having suffered a 5% disability on account of gunshot wounds to his back and was awarded an Army pension of 5s. 6d. per week; the date and detail of his wounding have not been established.

Sgt. William Walker Rossall MM (see 21^st October); and Ptes. Charles Frederick Riddial (see 21^st October) and Alfred Whittaker (see 21^st October), who had been serving with 8^th Battalion Yorks. and Lancs., were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.  

Payment of a £13 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Sam Phillips (see 4^th September 1917), who had been killed in the German shelling of Ypres in December 1916; the payment would be divided in a one-third to two-thirds ratio between his widow, Ada, who received £4 6s. 8d., and his daughter, Dora, who received £8 13s. 4d.. 

Payment of a £10 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Michael Gallagher (see 24^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Tom Horsfall (see 10^th April 1918), who had died of wounds in October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Thomas, his mother, Mary, having died in November 1918.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Charlie Long (see 22^nd September 1917) who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Joseph. His mother, Sarah, would also be awarded (date unknown) a pension of 12s. per week in respect of both Charlie and his brother, L.Cpl. Horace Long, who had died of wounds in December 1917, having served with 1^st/6^th West Yorks.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Ernest Taylor (29168) (see 21^st January), who had died of wounds in July 1918 while serving in France with 1^st/6^th DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Elizabeth.

Friday 12th December 1919

A/Sgt. Nathaniel Bather (see 21^st September), serving in Italy at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia, was posted to England for demobilization.

A/L.Cpl. James Sugden (see 21^st October); and Ptes. Joseph Barnes (see 21^st October), Herbert Bibby (see 13^th September), Hartley Gibb (see 13^th September), James Henry Lomax (see 13^th September), Martin Reddington (see 13^th September) and Thomas Wilson Shaw (see 13^th September), who had been serving with 8^th Battalion Yorks. and Lancs., were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Payment of a £5 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. George Waterworth (see 7^th September 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his father, James.

Thursday 11th December 1919

Sgt. Ronald Jeckell (see 21^st October) and Ptes. Joseph William Carter (see 6^th November), Walter Norman (see 21^st October), Edward Shaw Powell (see 21^st October), James Slinger (see 10^th November) and Herbert Stanley Smith (see 21^st October), who had been serving with 8^th Battalion Yorks. and Lancs., were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Carl Parrington Branthwaite (see 14^th October), who had been permanently discharged from the Army on account of TB contracted in service, died at Leeds General Infirmary; he would be buried at St. Andrew’s Churchyard, Gargrave.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Noah Davis (see 12^th May), who had died of pneumonia and jaundice in September 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Helena.

Payment of an £11 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Thomas Saunders (see 6^th March 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Elizabeth.

Payment of a £12 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Smith (13382) (see 29^th January 1918), who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his sister, Elizabeth.

Payment of a £13 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Christopher Tinker Sykes (see 22^nd January 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Anthony.

Payment of a £17 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Walton Thomas (see 1^st August 1918), who had been killed in action in April 1918 while serving with 1^st/7^th DWR; the payment would go to his father, John.

Wednesday 10th December 1919

A/Sgt. William Edward Varley (see 21^st October); Cpl. Victor Race MM (see 21^st October); L.Cpl. John William Kirby (see 1^st November) and Ptes. Ernest Ashness (see 21^st October), Arthur Brook (see 21^st October) and Harry Stephenson (see 21^st October), who had been serving in England with 3^rd Yorks. and Lancs., were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Daniel Mackenzie (see 26^th July), who had been serving with 2DWR, based at Oswestry, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Payment of a £16 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. George Binns (see 11^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in April 1918 while serving with 1^st/4^th DWR; the payment would go to his father, George.

Pte. George Binns

Payment of a £6 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Fred Heppinstall (see 11^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Esther.

Payment of a £4 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harold Peel (see 20^th March 1918) who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Edith.

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Percival James (Percy) Pemberton (see 25^th March 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Alice.

Payment of a £7 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arthur Samuel Potter MM (see 20^th March 1918), who had died of wounds in October 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Harriet.

Payment of a £6 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Thomas Wood (see 27^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Catherine, who had remarried and was now Mrs. Ashby.

Tuesday 9th December 1919

Pte. Harold Deighton (see 30^th May), who had been serving with 2DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

L.Cpl. John Jackson (19555) (see 21^st October) and Pte. William George Ruddock MM (see 20^th October) were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Payment of a £13 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Thomas Moyle MM (see 27^th July 1917), who had died of wounds in January 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Elizabeth.

Sgt. Thomas Moyle MM

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harold Clarkson (see 10^th September 1917) who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his father, George.

Pte. Harold Clarkson

Image by kind permission of Edward Wild

Payment of a £10 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Frederick James Farthing (see 27^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Frederick.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Herbert Hirst (see 27^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Fred.

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Albert Edward Pope (see 11^th December 1917), who had died of wounds in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Clara.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Ernest Smith (29167) (see 13^th August 1918), who had been killed in action in April 1918 while serving with 5DWR; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.

Thomas Probert Perks, father of the late Capt. Bob Perks DSO (see 19^th July), who had been killed in action in October 1918, secured a grant of probate of his late son’s affairs, valued at £348 2s. 6d.


The London Gazette published notice of the awards of Bars to the Military Cross to Capt. Henry Kelly VC, MC (see 25^th March) and Capt. Leonard Norman Phillips MC (see 5^th April) and a first award to 2Lt. Sam Benjamin Farrant (see 19^th February) for their conduct on 27^th October 1918.

Monday 8th December 1919

Pte. James Leonard Bloomer (see 13^th March), who had been formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in March, was awarded an Army pension as a result of the wounds to his left hand which he had suffered in September 1915; he was assessed as having suffered a 20% disability and was awarded a pension of 8s. per week.

Payment of a war gratuity of £9 10s. was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Albert Armitage (see 8^th October 1918), who had died of wounds in March 1918; the payment would go to his mother, who had re-married and was now Mrs. Charlotte Marshall.

Payment of a war gratuity of £12 10s. was authorised in respect of the late Pte. George Berthelemy (see 4^th December 1917), who had died of wounds in June 1917; the payment would be divided between his mother, Maria, who would receive £10 8s. 4d., and his brother John (£2 1s. 8d.).

Payment of a war gratuity of £3 10s. was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Kendall Lamb (see 7^th September 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Margaret.

Sunday 7th December 1919

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Saturday 6th December 1919

Pte. Charles Sidney Skelton (see 18^th October), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z, was married to Ellen Cousins in a ceremony held at Oxford Place Chapel in Leeds.

A payment of £26 14s. 3d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Sgt. Lewis Brazey (see 12^th February), who been killed in action in August 1918 while serving in France with 2DWR, the payment would go to his father, Joseph.

Payment of a war gratuity of £17 was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Thomas Cragg (see 21^st November 1918) who had been killed in action in April 1918 while serving with 1^st/7^th DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Annie.

Pte. Thomas Cragg

Payment of a war gratuity of £18 was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Tom Feather MM (see 3^rd February), who had died of wounds in July 1918; the payment would go to his father, Sutcliffe.

Payment of a war gratuity of £6 13s. 9d. was authorised in respect of the late Pte. George Edward Milner (see 12^th July), who had been officially missing in action since November 1917; the payment would go to his married sister, Clara Clapham.

Payment of a war gratuity of £13 10. was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Thomas Thompson MM (see 5^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Catherine.

Friday 5th December 1919

Lt. John William Headings (see 5^th September) formally relinquished his commission ‘on completion of service’.

Lt, John William Headings (standing)

Image by kind permission of Jill Monk

Pte. Albert Edward Ford (see 11^th June), who had been transferred to Class Z six months previously, suffering from neurasthenia, was examined by another Army medical report which would report that, “Improved. Sleep delayed – sleeps soundly when he gets off; frontal headaches; easily excited – stammers when excited. No other complaints; physical condition good; no tremor; pupils equal and react. On examination develops a gross stammer which he states is not habitual. Is working regularly at a canteen”. It was determined that his Army pension should be continued for a further six months.

Pte. Albert Edward Ford (standing left)

Image by kind permission of Kirstie Ford

Payment of a £4 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Christopher Smith Birch (see 20^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Elenior.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Stanley Broadbent (see 24^th January 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Albert.

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Victor Hillam (see 13^th February), who had been killed in action in August 1918 while serving in France with 9DWR; the payment would go to his mother, Mary Ellen Hillam.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Isaac Wells (see 8^th October 1917) who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his brother, Hector, although both parents were still alive.

Payment of a £7 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Frank Woodall (see 16^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Lilian.

Thursday 4th December 1919

Pte. Herbert Jacklin (see 21^st April), who was serving at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia, was attached to the Corps of Military Police. However, four days later he would be admitted to 38^th Stationary Hospital (reason unknown) and would remain in hospital for five days.


A/2^nd Cpl. John Bates (16949) (see 20^th September 1917), who had been serving with the Royal Engineers, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he was assessed as having suffered a 20% disability on account of the wounds he had suffered in September 1917 and was awarded an Army pension of 8s. per week.


Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Joseph Bowles (see 3^rd April 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Mary.

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Wesley Amos (see 6^th March 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would be divided equally between his brother, Harold J. Amos and his married sister, Mrs. Jane Chirwell Rhys Davis.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Meggison Bonass (see 28^th January 1918), who had died of wounds in September 1917; the payment would be divided in three equal shares to his mother Sophia, his sister, Laura and Miss Ethel Clark, who had presumably been his sweetheart.

Payment of a £17 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Robert Clarke (see 3^rd December 1918), who had died of wounds in August 1918; the payment would go to his father, Isaac.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harry Shaw (12316) (see 27^th April 1917), who had died from pulmonary TB in February 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Joe William Woodhouse (see 8^th November 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Annie.

Wednesday 3rd December 1919

A/Cpl. Tom Clark Lockett (see 2^nd April) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Gilbert Swift Greenwood (see 21^st May 1918), who had died of wounds in January 1918; the payment would go to his father, John.

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Arthur Greenwood Dolby (see 28^th October 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his sister, Dora.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Peter Herity (see 24^th October 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his brother George A. Norton.

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harry Read (see 25^th December 1917) who had died of wounds in June 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.

Tuesday 2nd December 1919

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Fred Davis (see 2^nd April 1918), who had died of wounds in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, James.

Payment of a £4 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Barber (see 27^th November 1918), who had died of wounds in September 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Ellen.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Willie Bates (see 17^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his brother, Harry.

Payment of a £14 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arthur Frederick Boulton (see 26^th July 1918) who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Arthur.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Frederick George Carlton (see 9^th October 1917), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, John.

Pte. Frederick George Carlton

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Henry Harris (see 19^th January 1917) who had been killed in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, Henry.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Henry Percival Widdop (see 23^rd July 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Edwin. Henry’s brother, Squire Widdop, had been killed in action on 1^st November 1918 while serving with 1^st/6^th DWR.

Monday 1st December 1919

Ptes. Thomas Henry Bennett (see 14^th September), Tom Clay (see 4^th September), Joseph Harpin (see 14^th September) and James Frederick Palmer (see 14^th September), who had been serving on attachment from 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Scutari (modern day Uskudar) in Istanbul, were posted back to England for demobilization.


A partial payment was made of the war gratuity due in respect of the late CSM James Davis MM (see 6^th May 1918), who had died of wounds in June 1917; his widow, Charlotte, who had re-married and was now Mrs. Charlotte Preskey, would receive £6 10s. The reason why the balance, of £13, would remain, as yet, unpaid, is unknown.

CSM James Davis MM

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Smith Hesselden (see 29^th January), who had died of wounds in July 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Lily.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Fred Ainley (see 4^th December 1917) who had been killed in the German shelling of Ypres in January 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Emma.

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. George Bentley (see 30^th January), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Daisy.

Payment of a £6 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Leonard Watling (see 17^th June), who had died of wounds in October 1917; the payment would go to his grandmother and legatee, Ann Eliza Debenham.

Payment of a £6 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Walter Kenyon Whitehead (see 13^th February 1918) who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his executors, his father William and his married sister, Alice Arguile.

Sunday 30th November 1919

Pte. Arthur Schofield (see 29^th October 1918) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

The sentence of two years’ imprisonment with hard labour, which had been imposed on Pte. John Bayliss (see 20^th August) in December 1918 for having been found sleeping whilst on sentry duty, was formally remitted by the military authorities in Italy.

Saturday 29th November 1919

Pte. Robert Ellis Clayton (see 10^th November), who had been serving with the Labour Corps, was discharged from the Army.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Leonard Mustill (see 18^th October 1918), who had died of wounds in June 1918; the payment would go to his mother, Mary Ann.

Friday 28th November 1919

Pte. Charles Clear (see 9^th May), serving with the 2^nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment at Kirkee Barracks, Colchester, was reported as having been ‘late falling in on parade’; he would be confined to barracks for four days.

Payment of a £10 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Luke Dawson (see 23^rd July 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Sarah.

Sgt. Luke Dawson (standing right)

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. John Henry Hitchin (see 16^th October 1918), who had been killed in the sinking of the troopship HMS Aragon in December 1917; the payment would go to his father, John.

Cpl. John Henry Hitchin

Payment of a £15 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. Joseph Smith (12748) MM (see 24^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Thomas.

Payment of a £12 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Wilfred Cornelius Allott (see 11^th April), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Grace.

Payment of an £18 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Walter Limmer (see 31^st March), who had died of wounds in September 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Alice.

Pte. Walter Limmer

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Stanley Arthur Lucas (see 15^th April), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Arthur.


Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Clifford George Unwin (see 31^st May 1917) who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would be divided equally between his married sister, Blanche McEnnerney, and Miss Ivy Brayshaw, who may have been his ‘sweetheart’.

Pte. Clifford George Unwin

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John (Jack) Williams (see 10^th April 1918), who had died of wounds in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Elizabeth. 

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Joseph Henry Woodcock (see 8^th April 1918), who had died of wounds on 30^th September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Ethel.

Thursday 27th November 1919

Sgt. Arthur Manks (see 11^th June), on attachment from 3DWR to a Prisoner of War camp at East Boldon near Sunderland, was posted to the Dispersal Centre at Ripon for demobilization.

Payment of a £16 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Charles Robert Scarber (see 31^st March), who had died from pneumonia in September 1918; the payment would go to his mother, Mary Anne.

Payment of a £5 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. George William Cook (see 19^th December 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his father, John.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harry Exley (see 24^th June 1918), who had been killed in action in November 1917 while serving with 2^nd/6^th DWR; the payment would go to his brother, John.

Payment of an £18 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Ernest Haslam (see 18^th September), who had been killed in action in June 1918; the payment would go to his father, Henry.

Payment of a £5 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William James Horne (see 4^th September 1918) who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Agnes.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harry Robinson (see 6^th June), who had died of wounds in July 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Edith.

Wednesday 26th November 1919

Pte. James William Kershaw MM (12519; 60065) (see 14^th November) was formally discharged from the Army on grounds of sickness. A medical examination carried out in Halifax assessed him as having suffered less than 20% disability which was likely to last for less than six months and therefore ineligible for an Army pension. His condition was summarised as follows: “1. Frost bite (1914); nothing abnormal detected in feet now, all movements perfect. 2. Gas poisoning (1915); complains of shortness of breath, lungs clear, heart normal. 3. Gunshot wound, right leg (1916); through and through. Entrance irregular oval pear 1” inner side calf, non adherent. Exit similar scar adherent to fascia 2 ½“ behind outside scar. Some loss of muscle tissue, no bone or nerve lesion, walks well.”

Payment of a £16 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Norman Wilson (see 28^th March 1918) who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Joseph. Sgt. Wilson’s brother, Pte. Harold Kershaw Wilson, 21^st West Yorks., had also been killed in action, on 26^th April 1918.

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Buckley (see 6^th September 1918), who was presumed dead having been officially missing in action since September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Sarah.

Payment of a £9 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Edwin Isherwood (see 10^th October 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Hannah.

Pte. Edwin Isherwood

Image by kind permission of Margaret Brenchley

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Edward Scott (see 14^th October 1918) who had been killed in action in March 1918 while serving with 2^nd/7^th DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Ethel.

Tuesday 25th November 1919

Pte. Charles Knight (see 13^th September) was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Luther Pickles (see 17^th July 1918) who had killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Lily.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Joseph Bernstein (see 8^th February 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Aaron.

Payment of a £12 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Edwin Kenyon (see 26^th August) who had been killed in action in August 1918; the payment would go to his widow, May.

Pte. Edwin Kenyon

Payment of a £3 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Joseph Walker (see 16^th April 1918) who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Sarah.