Sgt. Willie Nichols
(see 12th January), Cpl. Cecil Lloyd (see 25th January) and Ptes. Frederick Betts (see 2nd
February), Clarence Hubert Bolt (see 25th January), John Bundy (see 25th January), Willie
Davenport Frame (see 2nd
February), Ernest Heyhirst (see 25th January), James Henry Innes (see 24th January),
George William Jameson (see 25th
January), George Mather (see 24th January), John Thorp Newsome (see 2nd February), Arnold Robson (see 24th January), John
Starling (see 25th January)
and Victor Alexander Wildman (see 25th January) were
posted to England to be demobilized. Nichols, Lloyd, Bolt, Frame, Heyhirst, Jameson,
Newsome and Robson would be demobilized from Clipstone Camp; Betts and Bundy
from Chiseldon; Innes from Ripon; Starling from Wimbledon; and Wildman from
Prees Heath.
Pte. Frank William
Rabjohn (see 10th July
1918), who had served one year of a two year sentence for desertion at no.1
Military Prison at Rouen, had his sentence suspended and was discharged to one
of the Base Depots at Le Havre, pending being re-posted to Italy to re-join
10DWR.
CSM Stanley Vyvyan
Golledge MM (see 24th
January), Sgt. John Thomas Machin (see 31st May 1918) and Ptes. Ernest Bellamy (see below),
George Chamberlain (see 4th January), Eli Cordingley (see below),
George Dormand (see below), James Henry
Gahgar (see below), Michael Hannigan (see 4th January), William Hutchinson (see 4th January), William Little (see 4th January), William Henry Luke (see 4th January), Sidney Guy Mealing (see 4th
January), James Palmer (see 27th October 1918), Simpson Phillips (see 4th January), Thomas
Robinson (16490) MM (see 24th
November 1917), William Sergison
(see 5th October 1917), William Smart (see 28th December 1918) and William
Percy Smith (see 4th January) were
all formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.
In the absence of a surviving service record for Pte. Ernest Bellamy 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 1st/4th
DWR; when, and under what circumstances, he had joined 10DWR are unknown.
Pte. Eli Cordingley
was 31 years old and before the war had worked as a coal miner in Bradford. In
the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to establish any details
of his military service other than that he had only served overseas with 10DWR;
when, and under what circumstances, he had joined the Battalion are unknown.
Pte. George Dormand
had previously served with 9DWR, with whom he had first gone to France in July
1915, and 8DWR before joining 10DWR. In the absence of a surviving service
record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to
establish when, and under what circumstances, he had joined 10DWR.
In the absence of a surviving service record for Pte. James Henry Gahgar 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 1st/4th
and 5DWR; when, and under what circumstances, he had joined 10DWR are unknown.
Pte. Arthur Metcalfe
(see 19th October 1918),
who had spent most of the war as a prisoner in Germany before escaping from
captivity in September 1918, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class
Z. Arthur Metcalfe was the elder brother of Pte. Albert Mawer Metcalfe (see 20th
November 1914).
A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Tom Feather MM (see 16th November 1918), who had died of wounds in July 1918; his mother, Lily, was awarded 12s. 6d. per week.
A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Tom Feather MM (see 16th November 1918), who had died of wounds in July 1918; his mother, Lily, was awarded 12s. 6d. per week.
A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Harry Robinson (see 12th September 1918), who had died of his wounds on
19th July 1918; his widow, Edith, was awarded £1 5d. per week for
herself and her son.
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