Saturday 18th January 1919

Billets at Grumolo and Montecchia di Crosara

L.Cpl. Benjamin Tetley (see 4^th August 1918) and Ptes. William Atkinson (25980) (see 29^th September 1918), Jesse Ferns (see 31^st January 1918), Robert Hitchen (see 8^th July 1918), William Kershaw (18282) (see 9^th November 1918), Joseph Pickles (see 25^th August 1918), Sidney Powdrill (see 27^th November 1918), Thomas Alfred Simpson (see 25^th October 1918), Harold Wall (see 18^th November 1918) and Herbert Willoughby (see 6th October 1918) departed 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, for Tetley, Atkinson Ferns, Kershaw and Willoughby by 2Lt. Stephen Brown Airey (see 17^th January); for Hitchen and Simpson by Capt. John Edward Lennard Payne DSO, MC (see 6^th January); for Pickles and Wall by Lt. Herbert Edwin James Biggs (see 15^th January); and for Powdrill by Capt. Paul James Sainsbury (see 16^th January).

2Lt. Christopher Longstaff (see 29^th August 1918), serving in France with 9West Yorks, departed on two weeks’ leave to England.

L.Cpl. Harry Bailey (25248) (see 15^th December 1918) and Ptes. Alfred Fishlock (see 17^th December 1917) and Tom Smith (see 7^th January) who were on leave in England, were officially struck off the strength of 10DWR, as a precursor to being demobilized. Formalities for Bailey and Smith were completed whilst at North Camp, Ripon; the details for Fishlock are unknown.

Lt. Andrew Aaron Jackson (see 18^th December 1918), who had been in England since having suffered wounds to his right shoulder during the trench raid on 26^th August 1918, underwent a further medical operation (details unknown).

Pte. Fred Kershaw (see 8^th September 1918), who had been at Bagthorpe Military Hospital in Nottingham since having been wounded in August 1918, was medically examined prior to being discharged. The medical report found that, although he complained of ‘pains in the right leg when walking’, his wounds were now healed and that he had suffered no disability as a result; he would be discharged from hospital for demobilization two days later.