Wednesday 22nd January 1919

Billets at Grumolo and Montecchia di Crosara

Pte. Alfred Charles Dolphin (see 24^th November 1918) was admitted to 71^st Field Ambulance, suffering from scabies.

Pte. Fred Atkinson (see 26^th December 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 Capt. John Edward Lennard Payne DSO, MC (see 18^th January).

Capt. Frederick Lowther Dawson Barker (see 15^th January), 2Lt. Tom Hawson (see 23^rd October 1917), Cpls. James Hotchkiss (see 15^th January) and Percival John Munn (see 16^th January), L.Cpl. Alfred Hanson (see 27^th August 1918) and Ptes. James Cowie (see 15^th January), Harold Richard Denny (see 15^th January), Thomas Henry Fearn (see 15^th January), John Straton Graham (see 15^th January), Thomas Edward Sear (see 16^th January), Abraham Sunderland (see 16^th January), John Edward Varley (see 15^th January) and Erwin Wilkinson (see 15^th January) were posted to England to be demobilized. Cpl. Hotchkiss would be formally demobilized from the Dispersal Centre at Prees Heath, Shropshire; Cpl. Munn from Chiseldon Camp, Wilts.; L.Cpl. Hanson and Pte. Varley from Clipstone; Ptes. Denny and Sear from Wimbledon; and the others from North Camp, Ripon.

Pte. Wilson Hepworth (see 8^th August 1918), on attachment to 23^rd Division HQ, was also posted to England to be demobilized, from North Camp, Ripon.

HQ, British Forces in Italy wrote to HQ, 23^rd Division, forwarding “450 souvenirs of the Battle on the Asiago Plateau, 15^th June 1918, for distribution to the British officers under your command who were in the Forward Area on that date”. Whilst not directly involved in the fighting of 15^th June, 10DWR had been in reserve on the Plateau, and a number of men had been wounded by Austrian shelling. It is not known which, if any, officers of the Battalion received the ‘souvenirs’.