Sunday 2nd February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

At some point during this stay at Arzignano a photograph was taken, which survives among the collection of Capt. Leonard Norman Phillips MC (see 25^th January), of Maj. James Christopher Bull MC (see 12^th January).

Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum

Ptes. Frederick Betts (see 2^nd June 1918), Alfred Charles Dolphin (see 22^nd January), Willie Davenport Frame (see 20^th November 1918), James Edward Hollingworth (see 25^th August 1918) and John Thorp Newsome (see 18^th September 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 Betts and Frame, byy Capt. James Watson Paterson (see 30^th January); for Dolphin, Hollingworth and Newsome by Lt. Stanley Reginald Wilson (see 29^th January).

Capt. James Watson Paterson (see above) left the Battalion to join 8^th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.

Pte. Michael Hopkins MM (see 27^th December 1918), serving in France with 29^th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, was posted back to England for demobilization.

L.Cpl. Benjamin Thomas Alcraft MM (see 24^th October 1918) was transferred to 3DWR at North Shields; the circumstances under which he had returned to England prior to this transfer are unclear.

A/Cpl. Ralph Pocock Crease (see 15^th October 1918) who had been at no.2 Reception Battalion at Larkhill in Wiltshire in training for a commission, was posted to the Dispersal Centre at Crystal Palace, in preparation for demobilization.

Pte. James Kilburn (see 29^th December 1918), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was reported as ‘absent off church parade’; he would be confined to barracks for seven days.

CQMS Maurice Harcourt Denham (see 2^nd January), L.Cpl. William Dennison MM (see 24^th January) and Ptes. Jesse Barker MM (see 2^nd January), Horace Bell (see below), Joseph Binns (19614) (see 2^nd January), Jesse Richard Cooper (see 2^nd January), William Rees Dowell (see below), Harry Greenwood (14153) (see below), Samuel Garside Hardy (see 2^nd January), John Hirst (see 2^nd January), George Allen Holroyd (see 2^nd January), Martin Luther Harding (see 4^th January), Albert Jeffrey (see 2^nd January), William Ley (see 2^nd January), Ernest Reeve (13014) (see 17^th December 1917), Albert Scrase (see 26^th October 1918), Harry Simpson (see 2^nd January), Albert Smith (25953) (see 2^nd January), William Smith (24636) (see below), Smith Stephenson Whitaker MM (see 2^nd January), Thomas Warburton (see 4th January) and Samuel Young (see 14^th June 1918) were all formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

In the absence of a surviving service record for Pte. Horace Bell I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish any further details of his military service.

In the absence of a surviving service record for Pte. William Rees Dowell I am unable to establish any further details of his military service other than that he had previously served with 2^nd/4^th DWR; when, and under what circumstances, he had joined 10DWR are unknown. He was 29 years old and originally from Stainforth and had worked before the war as a railway shunter. 

In the absence of a surviving service record for Pte. Harry Greenwood (14153) I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish any further details of his military service other than that he had been an original member of 10DWR.

In the absence of a surviving service record for Pte. William Smith (24636) I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish any further details of his military service other than that he had previously served with 1^st/6^th DWR; when, and under what circumstances, he had joined 10DWR are unknown.

Cpl. Walter Ramsbottom (12382), serving with 9DWR, was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He had been an original member of 10DWR but,in the absence of a surviving service record, I am unable to establish when, or under what circumstances, he had left 10DWR.