Tuesday 28th January 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; each Battalion in turn having use of Range W. The afternoons were devoted to recreational training”.

Pte. Charles Knight (see 5^th September 1918) was reported for a breach of discipline (details unknown) which would see him awarded 14 days’ Field Punishment no.2 by Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 17^th January).

Pte. John Gayton (see 28^th July 1918) completed and signed his ‘Statement as to disability’ form, which was a precursor to his being posted back to England. The completed form, which confirmed that he did not claim to have suffered any disability in service, was witnessed by 2Lt. Samuel Whitaker (see 22^nd October 1918).

Capt. John Edward Lennard Payne DSO, MC (see 24^th January) was posted back to England.

Pte. John Edward Atkinson (see 22^nd December 1917), serving in France with 17^th Labour Company, Labour Corps, was posted back to England for demobilization.

L.Sgt. George Alma Cook (see 9^th January) was discharged from Connaught Hospital, Aldershot and posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Sgt. Joseph Maddison MM (see 23^rd December 1918) and Ptes. Israel Burnley (see 23^rd December 1918), Edwin Collins (see 23^rd December 1918), John Craven (see 23^rd December 1918), John Walter Gethen (see 23^rd December) and John Griffiths (see 23^rd December 1918) were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Sgt. Allan Wharton (see 1^st November 1918), who had been one of Tunstill’s original volunteers but had been transferred to 8^th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. William Smith (30333) (see 26^th August 1918), who had been in England since having been wounded in August 1918, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds suffered in action; he would be awarded a pension of 10s per week.