Saturday 8th February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

Sgt. Christopher Clapham MM (see 1^st September 1918), L.Sgt. Albert Reynolds (see 1^st December 1918), Cpl. Mark Butler (see 6^th December 1918), L.Cpl. Robert William Gough (see 17^th November 1918) and Ptes. William Henry Bray (see 18^th December 1918), Joseph Dent (see 20^th September 1917),  William Gordon Johnston (see 26^th November 1918), Joseph Livesey (see 29^th September 1918), Bruce Ernest Nash (see 29^th August 1918), James Edward Parkinson (see 10^th November 1917), William Ward Pickles (see 26^th December 1918), John Wright Pollard (see 12^th December 1918), Ernest John Robbins (see 20^th June 1918), Arthur Simpson (201538) (see 29^th September 1918), Robert Frank Smith (25829) (see 13^th August 1918), David Twigg (see 14^th December 1918) and Edwin Wright (see 29^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 Clapham, Dent, Gough, Bray, Simpson, Smith and Wright by Lt. Edward Kent Waite MC (see 6^th February); and for Butler, Nash, Parkinson, Pickles and Robbins by Capt. Paul James Sainsbury (see 5^th February).

Ptes. Joseph Renshaw (see 10^th June 1917), Selwyn Stansfield (see 5^th July 1918) and Harold Wider (see 7^th July 1918), serving in France with 1^st/6^th DWR, were transferred to 13DWR.   

Ptes. Daniel Mackenzie (see 8^th January) and Walter Umpleby (see 8^th January) who were on leave in England, were officially struck of the strength of 10DWR and transferred to 3DWR at North Shields.

2Lt. Aidan Nicholson (see 14^th August 1918), who had been in England after suffering from broncho-pneumonia, was formally released from the Army.

Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum

CSM Albert Blackburn DCM (see 12^th December 1918), who had been in England since having been wounded on 27^th October 1918, was formally demobilized from the Dispersal Centre at Clipstone. 

Ptes. Arthur Clark (25164) (see 11^th January) and Arthur James Miles (see 6^th December 1918), who were on leave in England, were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Cpl. William Hay Murdock (see 10^th January), A/Cpl. Norman Moorhouse (see 11^th July 1918) and Ptes. John Edward Airey (see 21^st September 1914), George William Corby (see 17^th December 1918), John Cronin (see 22^nd December 1918), Norman Greenwood (17998) (see 16^th November 1918), Ernest Kershaw (see 26th August 1918), Arthur Killingbeck (see below), Thomas Walter Mellin (see 28^th December 1918), Stanley Sykes (see 28^th December 1918), Thomas Frederick William Tink (see 8^th September 1917) and Fred Turner (see 21^st December 1914) were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

In the absence of a surviving service record for Arthur Killingbeck, I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish any details of his service.

L.Cpl. Edward Grayshon (see 13^th August 1918), serving with 3DWR, was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. James Albert Conway (see 3^rd October 1917) was released from active service; having originally enlisted on a Territorial Force attestation, he was recorded as having been ‘disembodied’, rather than transferred to Class Z. Since having been wounded while serving with 10DWR in September 1917 he had served (details unknown) with 1^st/4^th DWR.

Spr. Leonard Fox (see 30^th November 1918), serving with the Royal Engineers, was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Harry Hopkinson was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He had been serving most recently serving with 9DWR, but had previously served, successively, with 8DWR, 2DWR and 10DWR. 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 with 10DWR.