Thursday 2nd January 1919

Billets at Morando

Sgt. Harold Howlett (see 23^rd December 1918) was discharged from 69^th Field Ambulance and re-joined the Battalion.

Pte. Ernest William Gilbert (see 25^th October 1918) was evacuated to England from 81^st General Hospital in Marseilles, travelling oboard the Hospital Ship St. Patrick; on arriving in England he would be admitted to hospital in Birkenhead.

L.Cpl. William Dennison MM (see 27^th August 1918) was posted back to England for demobilization; he would be released from the Dispersal Centre at Ripon.

Pte. Kingsley James Reeve (see 1^st December) was also evacuated to England (details unknown).

CQMS Maurice Harcourt Denham (see 18^th October 1918), and Ptes. Jesse Barker MM (see 4^th November 1918), Joseph Binns (19614) (see 29^th October 1918),  Jesse Richard Cooper (see 6^th November 1918), John Thomas Damant (see 28^th October 1918), Walter Evans (see 27^th October 1918), John Henry Fidler (see 30^th October 1918), Samuel Garside Hardy (see 1^st December 1918), George Allen Holroyd (see 29^th October 1918), Albert Jeffrey (see 27^th October 1918), William Ley (see 26^th November 1918), Harry Simpson (see 20^th November 1918), Albert Smith (25953) (see 10^th November 1918), James Stott (see 24^th October 1918) and Smith Stephenson Whitaker (see 6^th November 1918) were discharged from the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albaro, near Genoa and posted back to England in preparation for being released from the Army. Pte. John Hirst (see 16^th January 1917) was also posted back to England for demobilisation; in the absence of a more detailed surviving service record it has not been possible to establish details of his service with 10DWR but it seems likely, especially given that he would subsequently make a pension claim for symptoms of neurasthenia and neuritis, that he had also been convalescing at Lido d’Albaro, near Genoa. Denham, Barker, Binns, Hardy, Hirst, Jeffrey, Simpson and Whitaker would all be released from the Dispersal Centre at Ripon; Cooper, Ley and Smith from Chiseldon Camp; Damant from Wimbledon; Evans and Fidler from Oswestry; and Stott from Clipstone. 

Pte. Charles William Groves (see 31^st October 1918) was discharged from Derriford Hospital, Devon; he would have ten days’ leave before reporting to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. Albert Rowe (see 8^th September 1917) was discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to illness; in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to establish any details of his illness or his service with 10DWR.

The surviving personal effects of the late Maj. Herbert St. John Carr West (see 7^th December 1918), who had died of wounds on 27^th October 1918, were despatched to Messrs. Cox & Co. to be forwarded to his relatives; the package comprised of, “letter, collar, field book, whistle and cord, neck tie, 7 trinkets, 2 Francs”.

A payment of £63 10s. 6d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late 2Lt. Albert Edgar Palmer (see 11^th December 1918), who had been killed in action on 27^th September 1918 while serving in France with 8^th West Yorks; the payment would go to his widow, Clara.