Tuesday 4th March 1919

Billets at Montecchia di Crosara

Pte. James Pidgeley (see 20^th November 1918) was reported for being drunk; he would be deprived of 28 days’ pay.

Cpl. Arthur William Stobart (see 25^th November 1918) was discharged from a Convalescent Depot in Genoa and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.

A/Sgt. Abel Roberts DCM (see 2^nd March), L.Cpls. Roderick Harmer (2^nd March) and Jesse Merritt (see 2^nd March) and Ptes. Wellington Baldwin (see 2^nd March), George Lownsborough (see 2^nd March) and Jonas Yoxall (see 2^nd March) were posted back to England for demobilization. Roberts, Harmer and Merritt would be demobilized from Wimbledon; Baldwin and Lownsborough from Ripon; and Yoxall from Prees Heath.

Ptes. John Bayliss (see 18^th February) and James Henry Lomax (see 18^th February), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, were reported by Cpl. Victor Race MM (see 2^nd March) as “absent from roll call at 9pm until reporting at 9.55pm”; both would be deprived of three days’ pay.

A/Maj. John Atkinson (see 13^th December 1918), second-in-command 51^st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, was posted, with his Battalion, to Germany as part of the army of occupation.

Lt. David Lewis Evans (see 7^th November 1918), serving with 3DWR, wrote to the War Office enquiring as to his eligibility for a further wound gratuity; in reply, he would be told that, “as you have already received the maximum gratuity of £250 in respect of your wound, you are not entitled to any further award”.

Lt. George Stuart Hulburd (see 21^st December 1918) formally relinquished his commission on grounds of ill health caused by his wounds.

Lt. George Stuart Hulburd

Image by kind permission of Paddy Ireland

Pte. Fred Mitchell (see 2^nd July 1917), who had had his right leg amputated having been wounded on 8^th June 1917, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to his wounds; his disability was assessed at 100%, reducing to 70% (presumably once fitted with an artificial limb) and he was awarded an Army pension of 27s. 6d. per week for three months, which would then be reduced to a life pension of 19s. 3d. per week.

Pte. Harold Spurr was also formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds suffered in action. He was a 25 year-old former brewer labourer from Grimsby and had originally served with 10DWR before being transferred to 2DWR and finally 5DWR. He had suffered (date and details unknown) wounds to his chest, but in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to establish any details of his service. He was awarded a pension of 15s. per week.

Pte. Edwin Wood (see 27^th July 1918), who had been wounded while serving in France with 5DWR, was also formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to his wounds; his degree of disability was assessed as being 40% and he was awarded and Army pension of 11s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

2Lt. Archibald (Archie) Allen (see 23^rd February), who been recently been released from the Army having been wounded in June 1918, again wrote to the War Office, 

“I have the honour to place this, my application for a further wound gratuity, before you for your kind consideration please. I was wounded 21^st June 1918 whilst on a raid near Asiago, Italy and sustained severe injuries to my left arm and chest. I have had three operations performed whilst in the hospital, but my arm will never again be right. I am therefore permanently disabled. From my chest I have had a rib removed that covers part of the heart and therefore liable to sustain dangerous results. This is my third application as I have not received any reply to my previous ones. I fully intended remaining in the Army as a profession but, having sustained the above injuries, I have been passed ‘permanently unfit’ and am therefore now unemployed and not a penny coming in for the upkeep of my house, wife and self”.

Ptes. William Demee (see 8^th September 1917) and David Doughty Glossop (see 7^th November 1918) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Thomas Eccles (see 27^th April 1917) was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he had originally served with 10DWR but had been transferred, via the DLI and the Labour Corps, to 2^nd Yorks. and Lancs.

Pte. Fred Ingham (see 8^th July 1916) who had served with both 8DWR and 1^st/5^thDWR since having been treated for shellshock in July 1916, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Irving Gledhill (see 5^th July 1916), serving with 9^th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Robert Cresswell (see 7^th February), who had already resumed his pre-war employment with the West Riding Constabulary, was also officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.