Sunday 23rd March 1919

Billets at Montecchia di Crosara

Lts. William Johnson Simpson MC (see 11^th March) and Stephen Moss Mather (see 26^th October 1918) and Ptes. Richard Henry Harris (see 14^th March), Michael Newton (see 14^th March) and William Ryan (see 14^th March) were posted back to England from the GHQ concentration camp at Tavernelle.

Capt. Frank Bryan Parker, serving in Northern Russia with 6^th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, was killed in action. He was the brother of Geraldine Parker, wife of Capt. Gilbert Tunstill (see 10^th April 1918). Capt. Parker was originally buried at Bolshoi Ozerki Cemetery but the site of his grave, along with those of a number of other men also buried in the same cemetery, was subsequently lost; they are all now commemorated on the Archangel Memorial. Capt. Parker is also commemorated on a memorial erected close to the Parker family home in South Milford.

Capt. Parker (left) along with his sister Geraldine (second from right) and her husband, Capt. Gilbert Tunstill (right) and other members of the Parker family.

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton.

Pte. Patrick Sweeney (see 28^th November 1918) was released from 7^th Military Prison at Les Attaques near Calais, on remission of the balance of his sentence of 15 years’ penal servitude and posted to one of the Base Depots at Etaples.

Pte. James Arthur Heap (see 11^th April 1918), serving in England with the Labour Corps, was struck off the strength of his unit and posted to the Dispersal Centre at Ripon in preparation for demobilization.

Sgts. Albert Hoggarth (see 21^st February) and Herbert Parkin (see 21^st February); A/Sgt. Sydney Alec Exley (see 12^th January), L.Cpls. William Henry Bower (see 5^th April 1918) and Irvin Ward (see 14^th December 1918) and Ptes. Josiah Charles (see 31^st January), George Dunkin (see 21^st February), Joseph McDermott (see 21^st February), John Perrin (see 21^st February) and Sidney Stephen West (see 4^th June 1918), were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Charles William Hird (see 31^st December 1918), who had been serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. Having been wounded in action and suffered from heart disease and bronchitis he was assessed as having a 40% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 11s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.