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Tuesday 5 March 2019

Thursday 6th March 1919


Billets at Montecchia di Crosara
Pte. Frederick McKell (see 21st November 1918), serving in France with 1st/7thDWR, was posted back to England for demobilization.
Pte. Frank William Rabjohn (see 3rd February), who was at one of the Base Depots at Le Havre, pending being re-posted to Italy to re-join 10DWR, was admitted to 2nd General Hospital at Le Havre suffering from influenza.



L.Sgt. Thomas Craven Patchett (see 26th December 1918), L.Cpl. John Lamb Watt (see 31st January) and Ptes. Clarence Hubert Bolt (see 3rd February), John Bundy (see 3rd February), James Foster (23956) (see 11th June 1918), Ernest Heyhirst (see 3rd February), James Henry Innes (see 3rd February), George William Jameson (see 3rd February), George Mather (see 3rd February), Roland Hey (see below), Arnold Robson (see 3rd February), Charley Wadsworth (see 24th January) and Victor Alexander Wildman (see 3rd February) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Roland Hey had been an original member of the Battalion, having enlisted aged 23 and working as a warehouseman in Ripponden; in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to establish any details of his service.
Sgt. William Henry Mears (see 19th February 1918) was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; at some point (date and details unknown) he had been transferred from 10DWR to 8DWR.

Cpl. Anthony John Laskey (see 11th August 1917) was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; at some point (date and details unknown) he had been transferred from 10DWR to 2DWR.

Pte. Arthur Bird was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he had been an original member of 10DWR but at some point (date and details unknown) he had been transferred to 8DWR. In the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or establish any details of his service.
Pte. Arthur Greenbank (see 6th June 1918), who had been serving with 69th Machine Gun Company, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.
Pte. Willie Hey (see 20th July 1917) was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; since leaving 10DWR having been wounded in June 1917 he had served with 9DWR, 8DWR and finally 2nd/4th DWR. 
Pte. Raymond Charles Ingleson (see 9th November 1918), who had been in England since having been wounded in August 1918, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he was awarded an Army pension of 11s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Ptes. William Seymour Budd (see 20th September 1917), Harry Clarke (15251) (see 20th September 1917) and Walter Hayes Mason were also transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; all three had been original members of 10DWR, having enlisted in 1914 but at some point (date and details unknown) had been transferred to the Labour Corps. Ptes. Budd and Clarke had been wounded in September 1917. In the absence of a surviving service record for Pte. Mason I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or establish any details of his service.



L.Cpl. Robert Whitaker (see 24th October 1918), who had been in England since having been wounded in August 1918, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was assessed as having suffered a 50% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 13s. 9d. per week for six months, rising thereafter to £1 per week.




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