Saturday 22nd February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

A third Divisional horse race meeting was held (see 5^th and 14^th February).

Sgt. Harold Howlett (see 2^nd January) and Ptes. Edgar Baron (see 23^rd November), Frank Dunn (see 5^th January), Bertram Edwin Earney (see 25^th April 1918), Owen Frank Hyde (see 16^th September 1918) and Charles Henry Russell (see 19^th October 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 Howlett by Capt. Paul James Sainsbury (see 9^th February); and for Baron, Dunn, Earney, Hyde and Russell by 2Lt. Albert Joseph Acarnley MC (see 16^th February).

Pte. Leonard Briggs (see 1^st September 1918) was transferred to 69^th Brigade HQ as a batman.

Sgt. Richard Farrar (see 10^th August 1918), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was attached for duty at the Prisoner of War Camp at Brocton Camp, Staffs.

Pte. Herbert Newton (see 13^th December 1918), serving at the Regimental Depot at Halifax, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 23^rd January) returned to 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth for further treatment in respect of the wounds he had suffered in October 1918.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

CSM Alfred Dolding (see 24^th January), Cpl. Frank Revell (see 24^th January) and Ptes. William Henry Cleaver (see 24^th January), John Robert Weightman MM (see 24^th January) and Cuthbert Wrightson (see 8^th September 1917) were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

L.Cpl. Edmund Peacock (see 18^th October 1918), who had been serving with 1^st/4^th DWR, was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

L.Cpl. Joseph Simpson (see 23^rd January), who had been serving in England with 52^nd (Garrison) Battalion, Notts. and Derbys., was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was also granted a pension, on account of wounds and ‘heart trouble’, of 8s. 3d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

A.M. James Linfoot (see 30^th September 1918), serving in England with the RAF, was formally transferred to the RAF Reserve; he was awarded a pension of 7s. 10d. per week, to be reviewed after six months.

A pension award was made in the case of late Pte. Edwin Kenyon (see 3^rd December 1918) who had been killed during the trench raid on 26^th August 1918; his widow, May, was awarded 13s. 9d. per week.

Pte. Edwin Kenyon

The War Office wrote to Clara Palmer, widow of the late 2Lt. Albert Edgar Palmer (see 2^nd January), who had been killed in action on 27^th September 1918 while serving in France with 8^th West Yorks, to inform her that her husband was buried at Flesquieres Hill British Cemetery, south-west of Cambrai.