Friday 25th April 1919

Cpl. Lawrence William Hinchcliffe (see 25^th December 1918; it is not known when he had been promoted) (40052) and Ptes. Fred Kenneth Carter (see 4^th November 1918) (40947), Albert William Cogger (see below) (40003), Edwin John Collard (see 23^rd October 1918) (40624), , John Dowkes (see below) (40080), Gordon Field (see 26^th October 1918) (40906), George Edmund Hockley (see below) (40619), Will Lee (see 28^th October 1917) (40621), Albert Leeson (see 5^th June 1918), Adam Shore (see 27^th October 1918), Samuel Slone (see 11^th January 1918), Herbert Stott (see 1^st February), George William Tombs (see 23^rd May 1918) (40530), and Arthur J. Webb (see 29^th October 1917) (40081) were transferred to 1^st (Garrison) Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, serving in Italy.

Albert William Cogger had previously served with 12^th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment and with 9DWR; in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish for certain when he had joined 10DWR, but it seems likely that it had been in September/October 1917.

John Dowkes was 30 years old and from Brighouse, where he had worked before the war as a cotton twiner; in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to establish when he had joined 10DWR or any details of his service.

George Edmund Hockley was a 36 year-old gardener from Shipley; in the absence of a surviving service record it has not been possible to establish when he had joined 10DWR or any details of his service.

Pte. Herbert Stott

Image by kind permission of Barry Gartside

Sgt. Thomas H.C. Bevan (see 29^th October 1917; it is not known when he had been promoted) and Pte. Bertie Cox (see 12^th March) were also due to have been transferred but it would appear that neither actually joined the Royal Munster Fusiliers. Sgt. Bevan would be transferred to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, with the rank of Acting Corporal and Pte. Cox remained with 10DWR.
Pte. Ernest Ashness (see 10^th March), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, was reported as having been ‘absent from roll call from 9pm until reporting to the Corporal of the Guard at 9.50pm’; he would be confined to barracks for three days.