Saturday 1st February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

According to the Brigade War Diary, “Units of the Brigade carried out training during the mornings from 9am until 12 noon and the afternoons were devoted to recreational training. Educational classes were held each morning and units in turn had the use of Range W”. Pte. Harold Charnock (see 6^th January) recalled that, at some point in February, “The Battalion team, under Lt. Thomson MC (2Lt. Wilfred Frederick John Thomson MC, see 23^rd January), won the Brigade football cup”; the date and details are unknown, but it is known that Pte. Herbert Stott (see 17^th August 1918) was a member of the successful team.

Commemorative medal awarded to Pte. Herbert Stott

Images by kind permission of Barry Gartside

2Lts. Cyril Edward Agar (see 7^th December 1918), William Johnson Simpson MC (see above), George Clifford Sugden MC (see 1^st January), Edward Kent Waite MC (see 1^st January) and Mark Allan Stanley Wood MC (see 2^nd December 1918) were all promoted Lieutenant

Pte. John Gayton (see 28^th January) was posted to England to be demobilized; he would be demobilized from the dispersal unit at Purfleet.

2Lt. Thomas Walsh (see 31^st December 1918) formally relinquished his commission on grounds of ill health; he gave his address as 7 Brook Street, Clitheroe.

Sgt. George Richard Goodchild (see 6^th January) and Ptes. John Thomas Damant (see 2^nd January), Robert Page (see 8^th September 1917) and Kingsley James Reeve (see 2^nd January) were all formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Sgt. Thomas Bulcock (see 3^rd January), who had been serving with 2DWR, was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

A/Sgt. Harry Brown, serving with the Royal Engineers, was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He had been an original member of 10DWR before (date and details unknown) being transferred to the Royal Engineers. In the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish any details of his service.

Pte. Harold Parsons (see 18^th June 1918), who had been in England since June 1918 after suffering from psoriasis, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to his illness; he was awarded a pension of 5s. 6d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Clara Tempest, widow of the late Pte. Arthur Tempest (see 29^th April 1918), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917, married John Petty in Bradford.