Tuesday 1st April 1919

The cadre of the Battalion continued their train journey across France, travelling via Malesherbes and reaching Juvisy-sur-Orge, just south of Paris.

Pte. Frank William Rabjohn (see 6^th March), was discharged from 2^nd General Hospital at Le Havre and re-posted to Italy; he would arrive at the GHQ Concentration Camp at Tavernelle one week later.

Pte. John William Addison (see 22^nd March) was discharged from Keighley War Hospital and demobilized. 

Pte. John William Mallinson (see 11^th February), on attachment to 151^st Protection Company, Royal Defence Corps, was officially struck off the strength of his unit and posted to Newcastle for demobilization. The unexpired portion of the sentence of imprisonment which had been imposed on him whilst serving with 10DWR was now formally remitted.

Lt. Ernest Cyril Coke (see 18^th December 1918), who had been serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was formally released from the Army, with the formalities completed at no.1 Dispersal Unit at Crystal Palace. Lt. Coke’s address on discharge would be Enfield Lodge, Christchurch Road, Folkestone. He would return to his pre-war occupation as a civil engineer.

Pte. Edgar Baron (see 1^st March) was released from active service; having originally enlisted on a Territorial Force attestation, he was recorded as having been ‘disembodied’, rather than transferred to Class Z.

Pte. Wilfred Barrett (see 20^th September 1917) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Ernest Bottom was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was 31 years old and from Huddersfield, where, before enlisting in 1916, he had worked as a chocolate maker. He had originally served with 2DWR before being transferred to 10DWR and had, at some point (date and details unknown) suffered wounds to his back. In the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to establish more detail of his service beyond the fact that he had still been serving with 10DWR in Italy in February 1919.

Pte. Harry Martin (see 25^th October 1915), who had been serving with the ASC, was also transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Charles Smith (12380) (see 26^th June 1918), serving in England with the Royal Defence Corps, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he was assessed as having suffered a 50% disability on account of the wounds he had suffered in July 1916 and was awarded an Army pension of 13s. 9d. per week.

Pte. Eber Casson Sykes (see 2^nd March), who had been serving in France with 298^th Reserve Labour Company, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. Having been wounded in July 1916, he was awarded an Army pension of 5s. 6d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

A payment of £6 3s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Thomas Henry Hemingway (see 27^th October 1918), who had been killed in action on 27^th October 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Ann.

A payment of £33 18s. 11d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war gratuity of £24 10s.) to the late Pte. Squire Topham; (see 27^th December 1918), who had been killed in action on 27^th October 1918; the payment would go to his father, Edward.