Friday 21st March 1919

Billets at Montecchia di Crosara

Pte. Ernest Mudd (see 13^th December 1918) departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

Cpl. Fred Greenwood MM (24522) (see 5^th March), who was on attachment to 505^th Prisoner of War Company, was promoted Acting Sergeant.

Pte. Reginald Dayson (see 2^nd March), who was a prisoner at no.1 Military Prison at Rouen, was admitted to 25^th Stationary Hospital in Rouen, suffering from a mild case of dysentery; he would be discharged and returned to prison after ten days.

Sgt. Wilson Allinson MM (see 24^th January), who was serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was attached to the Royal Defence Corps to serve at a Prisoner of War Camp.

Pte. Edwin Wright (see 18^th February) was formally ‘disembodied’.

L.Sgt. George Alma Cook (see 6^th February), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was transferred to the Army Reserve Class B; this class of reserve was for men who had completed their service in the regular army and were serving their normal period (typically of five years) on reserve. Section B reservists could only be called upon in the event of general mobilisation; pay was 3s. 6d. per week.

Sgt. Edward Robert Butler (see 27^th October 1917), Cpl. Alexander Wallace MM (see 30^th January) and Ptes. Tim Helliwell (see 18^th February), Reuben Serrell (see below), George Thompson MM (see 17^th December 1917) and Frank Wood MM (see 18^th February) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Reuben Serrell was 20 years old and from Leek, Staffs.; in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to establish when or under what circumstances he had joined 10DWR or any details of his service.

Pte. John Newton (see 19^th February), who had been in England since having been wounded in October 1918, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Harry Earnshaw (see 16^th February), who had been serving with 3DWR having been a prisoner of war in Germany, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

The War Office wrote in reply to the recent enquiry by Lt. David Lewis Evans (see 4^th March), serving with 3DWR, regarding his eligibility for a further wound gratuity; he was informed that “as you have already been granted the maximum gratuity of £250 you are not entitled to any further award”.

An In Memoriam notice was placed in the Craven Herald by the family of Pte. Tom Swales (see 3^rd May 1918) who had been officially ‘missing in action’ since March 1918

SWALES - In honoured and loving memory of our dearly loved son, Private Tom Swales, 9th West Riding Regiment, who was reported missing March 22nd, 1918, in his 21st year after 3½ years service.

He fought the fight, the victory won,

We weep but say "God's will be done";

But the unknown grave is the bitterest blow,

None but aching hearts can know.

From his loving Mother, Father, Sisters and Brothers, Rylstone

Pte. Tom Swales