Thursday 30th January 1919

Billets at Arzignano

L.Cpl. James Allen (see 6^th December 1918) was promoted Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant.

Cpl. Joseph Edward Robinson (see 17th May 1918) and Ptes. Joseph Blackburn (29722) (see 8^th December 1918) and Joseph Holmes (see 24^th November 1918) 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 Robinson by Capt. Paul James Sainsbury (see 29^th January) and for Blackburn, and Holmes by Capt. James Watson Paterson (see 29^th January).

Ptes. David Doughty Glossop (see 7^th November 1918) and Robert Wilson MM (see 25^th January) were posted to England to be demobilized. Glossop would be formally demobilized from Harrowby Camp, Grantham.

L.Cpl. Horace Dunn (see 4^th November 1918) was evacuated to England from 57^th General Hospital in Marseilles; on arrival he would be admitted to 1^st Southern General Hospital in Birmingham.

2Lt. George Henry Roberts (see 10^th May 1918), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was admitted to 2^nd Northern General Hospital, Leeds suffering from dyspepsia, vomiting and headache.

Pte. Sam Sunderland (see 17^th December 1918) appeared before an Army Medical Board at 4^th Northern General Hospital in Lincoln. The Board reviewed his case, noting that, “The patient noticed his finger was inflamed and reported sick. On admission, tip of right little finger was gangrenous and nearly separated. January 7^th, under general anaesthesia, necrosed second phalanx removed. Wound almost healed. No permanent disability; 20% disability for three months”. Five days later he would be transferred to Keighley War Hospital where he would remain for two days before being demobilized.

Sgt. Wilfred Fletcher (see 9^th January) was discharged from Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot and was officially struck off the strength of the Battalion, as a precursor to being demobilized.

Cpl. Alexander Wallace MM (see 17^th January), who was on leave in Scotland, was also officially struck off the strength of the Battalion, as a precursor to being demobilized.

Pte. Robert Cresswell (see 15^th December 1918), who had been repatriated in December having been taken prisoner in April 1918 while serving with 2^nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, gave written confirmation that he wished to relinquish the unexpired portion of his period of leave in order to resume his employment with the West Riding Constabulary.

Lt. Thomas Arnold Woodcock (see 25^th July 1918), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was released from the Army, from no.1 Dispersal Unit at Ripon. He would take up his pre-war occupation and become a schoolmaster.

L.Cpl. Thomas Riding (see 10^th January) and Pte. Joseph Dagger (see 10^th January), who were on leave in England, were demobilized; Riding from from the Dispersal Unit at Heaton Park, Manchester, and Dagger from Chiseldon.

Capt. Herbert Sparling MC (see 24^th September 1918), who had been severely wounded on 18^th October 1917, having his left leg amputated below the knee, formally relinquished his commission “on account of ill health caused by wounds”; he was awarded a ‘wound pension’ of £100. He would returned to his pre-war studies and gained an MA in 1919. He then attended Wells Theological College, where he studied to be an Anglican Minister and was ordained in 1921 (information from http://www.pro-patria-mori.co.uk/sparling.html).

A payment of £12 14s. 9d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. George Bentley (see 12^th June 1918), who had been officially missing in action since 16^th October 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Daisy, for herself and her three children.