Wednesday 19th February 1919

Billets at Arzignano

Ptes. Richard Metcalfe (see 1^st December 1918) and Fred Morrell (see 30^th October 1917) 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 by Lt. Edward Kent Waite MC (see 18^th February).

Pte. Robert Ellis Clayton (see 25^th September 1918), serving in France with the Royal Fusiliers, was posted back to England.

Pte. Louis Hodgson (see 26^th October), who had been in England since October 1918, having been wounded, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. John Newton (see 6^th February) was discharged from Brook War Hospital, Woolwich, and posted to a Dispersal Hospital at West Didsbury, where he would spend two days before being demobilized.

Lt. Daniel William Paris Foster (see 17^th September 1917), former Quartermaster 10DWR, was formally released from the Army; he completed his documents whilst at Clipstone Camp. His address on release was 1 John Street, Greetland, Halifax.

Lt. Daniel William Paris Foster

Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum

L.Cpl. Albert Edward Sherratt MM was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was 23 years old and from Huddersfield. In the absence of a surviving service record I am able to establish only the most basic details of his service. He had originally served with 10DWR but had been transferred (date and details unknown) to 2DWR. It was while serving with 2DWR, in October 1917, that he had been awarded the Military Medal; “Between the canal at Poelcappelle in October last, he saw to the carrying of rations to the front line, through shell and machine gun fire and it was due mainly to his efforts that rations were always delivered”, as published in the London Gazette on 28^th January 1918.

Pte. Herbert Cooper (see 10^th July 1916) was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He had been an original member of 10DWR but at some point after having been wounded in July 1916 (date and details unknown) he had been transferred to the Labour Corps. 

Pte. Albert John Start (see 29^th November 1918), serving in England with the Non-Combatant Labour Corps, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. James Harper (see 5^th June 1918) who, at some point (date and details unknown), had been transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. 

A payment of £5 0s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Frank Miller (see 10^th June 1918), who had been officially ‘missing in action’ since October 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary. At some point in the weeks following his having been reported missing (exact date unknown) Pte. Miller’s family had received a letter from 2Lt. Sam Benjamin Farrant (see 1^st January), which they had passed on to the War Office, and which the War Office had retained, prompting the family to write again, requesting the return of the letter and any news of Pte. Miller.