Friday 10th January 1919

Billets at Grumolo and Montecchia di Crosara

A/Sgt. George William Keeling MM (see 28^th October 1918), Cpls. Stephen Grady (see 30^th September 1918) and Walter Smith (18428) (see 25^th August 1918), L.Cpl. Thomas Riding (see 7^th October 1918), and Ptes. Robert Henry Arnold MM (see 21^st October 1918), Joseph Dagger (see 29^th October 1917) and William James Nunn (see 26^th November 1918) departed on two weeks’ leave to England.

Pte. Cuthbert Dyer (see 3^rd January) was posted back to England in preparation for being released from the Army.


L.Cpl. James Barker (12288) (see 5^th July 1918), serving with 2^nd Reserve Battalion Machine Gun Corps, based at Belton Park, Grantham, was admitted to East Leeds War Hospital. He would be operated upon for the amputation of the little finger of his left hand which had been fractured when he had been wounded in October 1916. It was noted that, “Wound now healed, but had broken down several times. Amputation through metacarpal bone, near head thereof. Hand is defective, though still quite useful”. After six days he would be discharged to the Dispersal Centre at Rugeley in preparation for demobilization.

Pte. John George Inshaw (see 23^rd December 1918), who was on leave in England, was demobilized from no.1 Dispersal Unit at Chiseldon Camp, Wilts.. His final medical examination found that he reported, “Swelling on instep of right foot, arising in November 1917 and caused through marching. There is tenderness dorsal to right foot. He has hammer toes and slight deformity of the foot which he states was present on joining the Army”; the injury was considered to have been aggravated, rather than caused by, his military service and to have caused less than 20% disablement. He was therefore not deemed eligible for any pension payment. 

Cpl. William Hay Murdock (see 18^th December 1918) and Ptes. Thomas Henry Dixon (see 22^nd December), Walter William Ford (see 20^th July 1918), Michael Langley (see 1^st March) and William Noel Simpson (see 22^nd December 1918) who were on leave in England, were officially struck off the strength of 10DWR. Murdock, Dixon and Simpson were discharged from the Dispersal Centre at Ripon; Ford from Chiseldon; and Langley from Prees Heath.

Pte. Henry Charles Lindsay (see 18^th November 1918), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was reported absent off his Christmas leave; he would report at 11.50pm on 16^th January and would be admonished but suffer no formal punishment.

Pte. Ernest Anderson was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He had been an original member of 10DWR but, in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish any more detail about his military service.

Pte. John McGowan was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He had served with both 2DWR (going to France in May 1915) and 8DWR before joining 10DWR (date and circumstances unknown). In the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish any more detail about his military service.