Friday 14th February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

A second Divisional horse race meeting was held (see 5^th February).

Ptes. Francis James Barnes (see 4^th August 1918), Alfred Bottom (see 10^th September 1918), William George Clements (see 9^th December 1918), Colonel Craven (see 10^th September 1918), Arthur William Drane (see 10^th December 1918), Joseph Hadley (see 5^th January) and Leonard Beaconsfield Turner (see 29^th June 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 by 2Lt. Wilfred Frederick John Thomson MC (see 13^th February). Pte. Craven was also ordered to be deprived of three days’ pay (reason unknown).

Cpl. Ernest Reeve (25923) (see 5^th February), L.Cpls. Alfred Ellis (see 5^th February) and Fred Riddiough (see 5^th February) and Ptes. Arthur Clarke (see 5^th February), Thomas Fielden (see 5^th February) and Walter Milnes (see 5^th February)  were posted to England to be demobilized. Reeve would be demobilized from Wimbledon and Clarke and Fielden and Milnes from Clipstone.

Pte. Joseph Wilkinson (see 19^th November), serving at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia, was also posted back to England for demobilization; he would be demobilized from Clipstone Camp.

Pte. Fred Sutcliffe (see 17^th December 1918) was discharged from Merryflats War Hospital, Govan, Glasgow and posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. Richard Butler MM (see 7^th November 1918), serving with 543^rd Agricultural Company, underwent a medical examination at Fulwood Military Hospital, Preston, in preparation for discharge. The examining officer found, “Total loss of vision in left eye due to perforating injury, with secondary optic nerve atrophy. Paresis of extra-ocular muscles. Will not recover”; he recommended 50% compensation.

L.Cpl. Enoch Wilson Rhodes MM (see 31^st May 1918) and Ptes. Albert Edward Beasley (see 8^th September 1917), Jack Edgar Hall (see 11^th February), Thomas Charles Jaques MM (see 24^th January), Robert Tanfield (see below), Richard Taylor (13381) (see below) and Herbert Williams (see 17^th January) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Robert Tanfield and Richard Taylor had both been original members of 10DWR but, in the absence of surviving service records, I am unable to make a positive identification of either man or to establish any details of their military service.

Sgt. Ellis Rigby (see 17^th January), who had been in training for a commission, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Frank Demaine (see 15^th Dcember 1918), who had been serving with 2DWR, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Fred Slater (see 27^th November 1917), who had been wounded in November 1917 while serving with 2/7^th DWR, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to his wounds; he was awarded a pension of 13s. 9d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.