Saturday 4th January 1919

Billets at Morando

The Battalion marched 23 miles north, via Cologna Veneta, Sule, Arcole, San Bonifacio and Monteforte d’Alpone to their former billets at Grumolo and Montecchia di Crosara. On this occasion the Companies were billeted in Grumolo with Battalion HQ and Transport at Montecchia di Crosara.

At some point whilst here the Battalion Transport finished first in the Divisional and third in the XIV Corps Transport competitions. 

CSM Stanley Vyvyan Golledge (see 29^th December 1918) and Ptes. George Chamberlain (see 29^th December 1918), Michael Hannigan (see 29^th December 1918), Martin Luther Harding (see 29^th October 1917), William Hutchinson (see 29^th December 1918), William Little (see 29^th December 1918), William Henry Luke (see 29^th December 1918), Sidney Guy Mealing (see 29^th December 1918), Simpson Phillips (see 29^th December 1918), William Smart (see 28^th December 1918), William Percy Smith (see 29^th December 1918) and Thomas Warburton (see 29^th December 1918) were all posted back to England to be demobilized. 

Pte. Newton Dobson (see 22^nd December 1918) was evacuated to England from 81^st General Hospital in Marseilles; on arrival he would be admitted to hospital in Eastleigh.

Ptes. Harold Draper (see 15^th December 1918), Joseph Barber Taylor (see 15^th December 1918) and Sidney Christopher Hugh Williams (see 15^th December 1918) who were home on leave in England, were officially struck off the strength of 10DWR, as a precursor to being demobilized.

On the expiry of his two week leave in England Pte. Harold Deighton (see 15^th December 1918) reported at Southampton, ready to return to Italy. On reporting, in his own words, “I was sent home to get work with my old employer if it was possible. I was given a single railway warrant home and a ration book for a fortnight. My old employer wrote to the Local Advisory Committee in Scarborough to apply for me”. However, unlike Ptes. Draper, Taylor and Williams, he was not officially struck off the strength of the Battalion.

Pte. George Bernard Hardy (see 20^th December), who was also on leave in England, from 2DWR in France, was also officially struck off the strength of his battalion, as a precursor to being demobilized.

Pte. William Baxter (see 19^th December 1918), serving in France with17^th Prisoner of War Company, Labour Corps, was reported for “Breaking out of camp; being absent from escort duty from 7am to 3.30pm”; he would be confined to barracks for 14 days and would forfeit one day’s pay.

Pte. James Arthur Markinson MM (see 2^nd October 1918), serving in France with 2DWR, departed on two weeks leave to England.

Lt. John Robert Dickinson (see 19^th October 1918), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was despatched to no.1 Infantry Officer’s School for a one-month course in tactics and topography. 

Pte. William Skilton Scott (see 8^th September 1917) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds suffered in action; in the absence of a surviving service record it as not been possible to establish when he had been wounded, or the nature and extent of his injuries.

Official confirmation was received at the War Office, via the German authorities, of the death and burial of Pte. Ellis Sutcliffe (see 30^th August 1918), who had been taken prisoner in March while serving with 2^nd/5^th DWR, and had died in August 1918.