Tuesday 14th January 1919

Billets at Grumolo and Montecchia di Crosara

Pte. Edwin Baldwin (see 26^th September 1918), serving in France with the Motor Transport Section of the Army Service Corps, was ordered to be confined to barracks for three days and to be deprived of three days’ pay having been ‘absent from 9.30pm roll call parade on 13^th to 6.30am on the 14^th’.

Pte. Arthur Walton (see 28^th October 1918), who been officially ‘absent without leave’ since failing to return from leave to England, surrendered himself to the Police in Leeds. He was then ordered to be despatched, under escort, to the Rest Camp at Southampton, pending a return to Italy. In actual fact, he would be posted to 3DWR, then stationed at Great Crosby, Liverpool; here he would be ordered to forfeit 78 days’ pay.

2Lt. John Davis MM (see 12^th July 1918), who had been on light duties with 3DWR in England since having been wounded on 7^th June 1917, appeared before a further Army Medical Board. The Board reported that there had been no improvement in 2Lt. Davis’ condition since his previous board; “Still has pain over wound and pain running down to wrist and between 1^st and 2^nd fingers. Scar is adherent.” He was instructed to re-join 3DWR.

2Lt. John Davis MM

Pte. Isaac Robinson (see 8^th January), who was on leave in England, was formally demobilized from the Dispersal Centre at Ripon.

Pte. William John Thomas Hurst (see 3^rd January) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Capt. Alan G. Tindill, 17^th Northumberland Fusiliers, brother of 2Lt. Lawrence Tindill MM (see 7^th January), who had been officially missing in action since 21^st June 1918, wrote to the War Office regarding his brother:

“I beg to bring before you the following particulars regarding the above officer who was reported missing from the British forces on the Italian Front on June 21^st 1918.

This officer took part in a raid organised by his Battalion on the night of June 21^st on the Austrian positions on the Ave sector and when the raid was over it was found that Lt. Tindill and Pte Goodship (Pte. John James Goodship, see 7^th January) were missing. Pte Goodship is now officially known to be a prisoner in the hands of the Austrians.

On 21^st August (sic.; recte 26^th August) the above Battalion carried out another raid on the Austrian positions in the same sector and in the course of the operations some Austrian officers were captured, one of whom in examination stated that on the night of 21^st June they captured an English officer and a private and the description he gave was a correct one of Lt. Tindill. The Austrian officer stated that Lt. Tindill had several times been taken up to points of observation by his captors with a view to obtaining information as to the British positions, which information Lt. Tindill had refused to give.

These particulars can, I feel sure, be confirmed by Lt. Col. Lethbridge DSO (Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO, see 12^th January), who was commanding 10^th West Riding Regt. up to August 21^st. Up to the present no word has been received officially from or concerning this officer, but a letter has been received from a Major Town (Maj. William Norman Town, see 6^th January) of 10^th West Riding Regt. stating that after the Armistice the bodies of an officer and corporal had been found and that presumably this officer was Lt Tindill.

I shall be glad if you will take this matter up with a view to obtaining some definite particulars regarding Lt Tindill’s fate.