Friday 28th March 1919

Billets at Montecchia di Crosara

Cpl. William McGill (see 11^th December 1918); L.Cpl. Arthur Gears (see 22^nd March 1917) and Ptes. Thomas Bates (see 24^th February) and Robert Fiedler (see 25^th February) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Tom Lister Ellison (see 26^th February), who had been in England since December 1918, having been taken ill, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he was assessed as having suffered a 10% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 7s. 10d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

L.Cpl. Ernest Gee (see 26^th February), who had been serving with 2DWR, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Edward Smitham, the eldest son of Sgt. George Edward Smitham (see 8^th February 1917), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class W in February 1917 and had been working for British Dyes Ltd at Huddersfield, was now formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


Pte. Wilfred Wood (see 1^st April 1918), who had been serving with ‘D’ Company, 17^th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

The surviving personal effects of the late Maj. Herbert St. John Carr West (see 2^nd January), who had died of wounds on 27^th October 1918, were despatched to Messrs. Cox & Co. to be forwarded to his relatives; the package comprised of, “letter, collar, field book, whistle and cord, neck tie, 7 trinkets, 2 Francs”.

A payment of £20 5s. 11d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war gratuity of £15) to the late Pte. Walter Eary (see 18^th November 1918), who had died on 18^th November 1918 after being treated for a laryngeal tumour. A sum of £6 15s. 5d. was for the benefit of his widow, Alice,and she would receive a further £13 10s. 6d. expressly for their daughter, Florence. Alice would also receive a single item left from her husband’s effects; his razor.