Tuesday 18th February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

In accordance with the orders issued two days previously a large draft from 69^th Brigade was prepared to join 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. which had been selected to become part of the Army of Occupation in Austria. In total the Brigade would provide seven officers and 680 other ranks (30 fewer than had been originally specified). 10DWR would contribute one officer (Lt. Edward Kent Waite MC, see 9^th February)), rather than two, and the 59 men as ordered. The draft would officially join their new Battalion a week later. The men who were posted were as follows:

Sgts. Ronald Jeckell (see 17^th December 1918) and William Walker Rossall MM (see 15^th January).

Cpls. Arthur Lee MM (see 30^th March 1918), Victor Race MM (see 31^st August 1918), Martin Reddington (see 5^th February) and William Edward Varley (see 25^th August 1918).

A/Cpl. Archie Lamb (see 5^th June 1918).

L.Cpls. John Jackson (19555) (see 23^rd September 1918), Fred Oldroyd (see 27^th August 1918), Clarence Smith (see 25^th December 1918) and Herman Tutty (see 28^th October 1918) .

Ptes. Ernest Ashness (see 8^th December 1918), Harry Bailey (25198) (see 15^th December 1918), John Bayliss (see 11^th February), Joseph Barnes (see 17^th October 1918), Harry Beaumont (29306) (see 22^nd November 1918), Thomas Henry Bennett (see 8^th September 1917), Herbert Bibby (see 5^th September 1918), Arthur Edward Bottomley (see 16^th December 1917), Arthur Brook (see 29^th September 1918), Joseph William Carter (see 3^rd September 1918), Walter Clarke (see 23^rd April 1918), Tom Clay (see 21^st October 1918), Charley Culley (see 15^th December 1918), Henry Fielding (see 26^th August 1918), Hartley Gibb (see 1^st September 1918), Edwin Haley (see 11^th August 1918), Joseph Harpin (see 16^th January 1917), Albert Edward Victor Harris (see 17^th October 1918), Joseph Hartley (see 25^th January), John Walter Jennings (see 29^th October 1917), Lancelot Johnson (see 13^th December 1918), Herbert Crowther Kershaw (see 22^nd September 1918), John William Kirby (see 1^st December 1918), James Henry Lomax (see 19^th December 1918), Walter Norman (see 15^th September 1917), James Frederick Palmer (see 22^nd November 1918), Herbert Phillips (see 18^th June 1918), Ezra Plumb (see 28^th October 1918), Ernest Potter (see 7^th July 1918), Edward Shaw Powell (see 1^st September 1918), Charles Frederick Riddial (see 5^th September 1918), William George Ruddock MM (see 18^th October 1918), Thomas Wilson Shaw (see 29^th June 1918), James Slinger (see 25^th August 1918), Herbert Stanley Smith (see 5^th October 1918), Albert Stanley (see 25^th February 1918), Harry Stephenson (see 26th August 1918), James Sugden (see 25^th August 1918), Charles Sidney Taylor (see 7^th January), John Chadwick Taylor (see 26^th November 1918), Arthur Wallis (see 17^th October 1916), Walter Gee Wardley (see 20^th September 1918), William Herbert Websdale (see 2^nd June 1918), Alfred Whittaker (see 20^th November 1918), Herbert John Wicks (see 18^th December 1918), Arthur Thomas Wilford (see 6^th December 1918) and Irvin Wilkinson (see below).

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

After this draft left the average ration strength of the Battalion stood at 120. Pte. Harold Charnock (see 5^th February) remembered that “Few men were left and little training was possible”.  

Pte. Reginald Dayson (see 7^th January), who had been convicted of absence without leave by a Field General Court Martial, was handed over to the Assistant Provost Martial, XIV Corps, to be despatched to no.1 Military Prison at Rouen.

Pte. Herbert Jacklin (see 8^th December 1918) was transferred to 69^th Trench Mortar Battery. The next day he would be admitted via 39^th Casualty Clearing Station to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia; he was suffering from jaundice.

Sgt. Lionel Vickers (see 6^th February) and Ptes. Harry Briggs (19286) (see 15^th February), Tim Helliwell (see 9^th February), Frank Tucker (see 9^th February), Frank Wood MM (see 9^th February) and Edwin Wright (see 8^th February) were posted back to England for demobilization. Vickers and Helliwell would be demobilized from Clipstone; Tucker from Fovant and Wright from Ripon.

Lt. George Clifford Sugden MC (see 15^th February), who was en route to England on one months’ leave, was admitted to 2^nd General Hospital at Le Havre suffering from laryngitis which “resulted from a ‘cold’ contracted in November 1918 when he remained in wet clothes for three days on end on active service”. Next day he would be posted back to England and, on arrival in England, would be admitted to 1^st Southern General Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham.

L.Cpl. John Henry Crawshaw (see 27^th December 1918), serving in France with 1^st/7^th DWR, was posted back to England for demobilization.

Pte. Robert Henry Arnold MM (see 21^st October 1918), who was on leave in England, was demobilized from the Dispersal Unit in Oswestry.

Ptes. William Havery (see 19^th January), James Arthur Markinson MM (see 4^th January) Frank Patterson (see 17^th January), John Sunderland (see 21^st January), Henry Tate (see below) and Norman Woodhouse (see 17^th January) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Henry Tate had originally served with 2DWR and had first gone to France in May 1915, before being transferred (date and details unknown) to 10DWR. In the absence of surviving service records I am unable to make a positive identification of either man or establish any details of their service.

Henry Tate had originally served with 2DWR and had first gone to France in May 1915, before being transferred (date and details unknown) to 10DWR. In the absence of surviving service records I am unable to make a positive identification of either man or establish any details of their service.

Sgt. Harry Clark (see 14^th October 1918) and Ptes. George Herbert Lant (see 6^th July 1918), Herbert Willis Pickles (see 29^th September) and John Stenson (see 5^th December 1918), who had been serving with 3DWR at North Shields, were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Cpl. Robert Yates and Pte. Joseph Woofenden (see 11^th July 1916) were also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. Both had originally served with 10DWR before being transferred (date and details unknown) to 2DWR. In the absence of surviving service records I am unable to make a positive identification of either man or establish any details of their service.

Pte. John William Beaver MM (see 14^th September 1916) was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he had been an original member of 10DWR but at some point (date and details unknown) had been transferred to the Labour Corps.

Pte. John Beaumont (see 31^st October 1918), who had been serving with the Army Service Corps, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

L.Cpl. William Neville Dawson (see 22^nd August 1918), serving with 16^th (Transport Workers) Battalion York and Lancasters, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.