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Monday, 28 January 2019

Wednesday 29th January 1919

Billets at Arzignano

L.Cpls. Louis Feather MM (see 3rd December 1918) and William Robinson (see 27th October 1918) and Ptes. Francis Barrett (see 9th December 1918), James Grubb (see 8th December 1918), Michael Church (see 29th June 1918), Arthur Leeming (see 18th August 1918), Frederick Patrick (see 23rd September 1917), Frederick Sharp (see 22nd September 1918) and Arthur Wood (29524) (see 20th 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 Feather, Barrett and Church by Capt. James Watson Paterson (see 25th January); for Robinson, Leeming and Patrick by Capt. Paul James Sainsbury (see 24th January); for Sharp and Wood by Lt. Stanley Reginald Wilson (see 24th January).
Pte. William Naylor (see 18th November 1918), who was at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia following a period of illness, departed on two week’s leave to the UK.
Pte. Edwin Baldwin (see 14th January), serving in France with the Motor Transport Section of the Army Service Corps, was posted back to England for demobilization.
Pte. John Foster (see 1st January), who had been in England for the previous month, was discharged from 2/1st Southern General Hospital, Birmingham.

Pte. William Brook (13846) (see 6th October 1916) was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.
A pension award was made in the case of the late L.Cpl. Smith Hesselden (see 19th October 1918), who had died of wounds on 10th July 1918; his widow, Lily, was awarded 29s. 7d. per week for herself and her three children.




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