Saturday 12th April 1919

A/CQMS Bertie Thurling (see 7^th December 1918; it is unclear when he had been promoted), A/Sgt. Fred Greenwood MM (24522) (see 29^th March) and Ptes. Thomas Henry Cox (25806) (see 29^th March) and Charles Knight (see 29^th March), who were on attachment to 505^th Prisoner of War Company at San Bonifacio, were officially posted to the ‘Details Battalion’ of the Dukes as a consequence of 10DWR having been disbanded.

Sgt. John William Dickinson (see 21^st November 1918), who had been serving at no.5 Military Prison at Les Attaques, was posted to England for demobilization.

Former Battalion Medical Officer Capt. Norman Robert Davis (see 11^th March) sailed onboard the SS Prinz Frederich Wilhelm from Brest, bound for the United States.

Pte. Samuel Walker (see 18^th March) was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

The Infantry Records Office in York sent to Pte. George Bernard Hardy (see 5^th February) ‘one book of War Savings Certificates, containing five receipts’; presumably they had been located and identified from one of Pte. Hardy’s previous postings, prior to his being transferred to the reserve.

Rev. A. Tattersall, minister of the Bethesda United Methodist Church in Bristol, wrote to the Infantry Records Office in York on behalf of the widow of Pte. Walter William Ford (see 20^th February), who had died from influenza whilst at his home in Bristol:

“I am writing on on behalf of the widow of the late Pte. Walter William Ford, of 34 Seneca Street, St. George, Bristol. She has received the enclosed from your office. This is the third communication of a similar character that has been received and to which she has replied or I have replied. The man has been dead since 20^th February. It has been a heart-breaking experience to lose the husband, but it only intensifies the grief and opens the wound more deeply to receive inquiries concerning him on these lines after he has been passed away for so long. Please see that your records are put right as soon as you can after receiving this communication so that she may be saved the sadness and sorrow of having to reply to inquiries the Regiment he is in, remembering that he is interred”.

Two days later the Infantry Records Office would reply:

“I have to inform you that your letter was the first intimation received of the death of this man and the memo, written by me, was the first communication from this office to him. I am unable to trace Private Ford from the particulars which he gave at the Dispersal Station. These particulars being incorrect would be the cause of the widow receiving letters asking for correct particulars, which letters were probably sent by the Regimental Paymaster. Is it possible for you to kindly obtain correct regimental number and the regiment to which he belonged and also death certificate. If it is impossible to forward the latter could you state the cause of death?”

A payment of £16 3s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Cpl. Ernest Pearson MM (see 27^th October 1918) who had been killed in action on 27^th October 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah.

A payment of £38 2s. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war gratuity of £24) to the late Pte. Frederick Harris MM (see 27^th October 1918), who had been officially missing in action since 27^th October 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Elizabeth, with two-thirds of the amount officially for the benefit of their children.