Saturday 1st March 1919

Billets at Montecchia di Crosara

Sgts. James Henry Howarth (see 20^th February) and Harold Howlett (see 22^nd February) and Ptes. Harry Bailey (14133) (see 20^th February), Mortimer Banks (see 29^th June 1918), Edgar Baron (see 22^nd February), Frank Dunn (see 22^nd February), Bertram Edwin Earney (see 22^nd February), Fred Wilson Fawcett (see 20^th February), Owen Frank Hyde (see 22^nd February), Richard Metcalfe (see 19^th February), Fred Morrell (see 19^th February) and Charles Henry Russell (see 22^nd February) were posted back to England for demobilization. Howlett, Banks, Baron, Fawcett, Metcalfe, Morrell and Russell would be demobilized from Clipstone; Dunn and Earney from Fovant; and Hyde from Purfleet.

Pte. Willie Kershaw (see 8^th August 1918), serving with 497^th Company, Labour Corps, was transferred back to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. Sidney John Baker (see 27^th October 1918) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of the wounds he had suffered in October 1918.

2Lt. Percival Victor Thomas (see 21^st December 1918) was formally released from the Army from a dispersal unit in London. He gave his address as 73, Wendell Road, Shepherd’s Bush, London, and he would resume his pre-war employment as a ‘seal engraver and gem sculptor’.

Ptes. John Charles Clarke (see 13^th December 1918), Harold Passmore Lee (see 28^th May 1918), Harold Sykes (see below) and Robert Wilson MM (see 30^th January) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Harold Sykes had originally served with 2DWR, before being transferred to 10DWR, and subsequently to 2^nd/6^th and 2^nd/4^th DWR; in the absence of a surviving service record, I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish any details of his service.

Pte. Gilbert Bell (see 26^th December 1918) was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Harold Holt (see 7^th November 197), who had been discharged from the Army due to wounds had his Army pension reassessed as his level of disability was now considered to be less than 5%. His pension was reduced from 9s. 6d per week to 7s. 6d and would cease after twelve months, but he was also awarded a terminal grant of £10.