Friday 7th March 1919

Billets at Montecchia di Crosara

Pte. Fred Hargreaves (29267) (see 6^th February) completed and signed his ‘Statement as to disability’ forms, which were a precursor to his being posted back to England. The completed forms, which confirmed that he did not claim to have suffered any disability in service, were witnessed by 2Lt. Albert Joseph Acarnley MC (see 22^nd February).

Pte. Fred Hargreaves (29267)

Image by kind permission of Patrick Hargreaves

Lt. John William Headings (see 30^th October), the former Battalion Quartermaster, who had been in England since having been injured in an accident in September 1918,  wrote from Escrick Park  Auxiliary Hospital for Officers, York, asking for attention to his application for a wound gratuity, having “been over five months in hospital and still under treatment owing to the knee having been badly twisted”.

Cpl. Herbert Axe MM (see 27^th October 1918), who had been in England since having been wounded in October 1918, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds suffered in action. His disability was assessed as being 100% and he was awarded a pension of 43s. 4d. per week.

Cpl. Charles Fleming (see 13^th March 1918) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds suffered in action (I am unable to establish when, or under what circumstances he had been wounded, or any details of his treatment).

CSM Albert Blackburn DCM (see 8^th February), Cpl. William Foulds (see 20^th February) and Ptes. Thomas Eccleston (see 31^st January) and Arthur Lindsay (see 12^th October 1918), were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Arthur Lindsay

Pte. Sam Sunderland (see 30^th January), who had been in England since December 1918, was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Richard Swallow (see 12^th March 1918), who had been in England since October 1917, was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Reginald Hancock (see 13^th January), serving with 497^th Home Service Employment Company, was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Thomas Martin Douglas (see 5th January 1917) was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he had at some point (date and details unknown) been transferred to the Labour Corps.