Saturday 5th April 1919

Maj. William Norman Town (see 4^th April) and Capt. Leonard Norman Phillips MC (see 4^th April) travelled from London to Halifax, where, at the Regimental Depot, the trophies and documents of the Battalion were handed over.

Capt. Dick Bolton MC (see 11^th March), who had been serving as Brigade Major with 69^th Brigade HQ, was posted back to England to take up employment with the War Office.

Capt. Dick Bolton MC

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

The remaining men of the cadre of the cadre of the Battalion returned to England. CSM Fred Pattison DCM (see 29^th March), A/CSM Middleton Busfield MSM (see 29^th March), A/CQMS George Alfred Giles (see 29^th March), Sgts. Herbert Grayshon (see 29^th March), John Scott (see 29^th March), Harry Smith (12240) (see 29^th March), George Edward Smitham (see 29^th March) and James Wilcox (see 29^th March); L.Sgt. Harold Bray (18231) (see 29^th March), Cpls. Charles Brown (see 29^th March) and John William Warner (see 29^th March), L.Cpls. Harry Leaper (see 29^th March), Percy Simpson (see 29^th March) and Victor Lawson Smith (see 29^th March); and Ptes. John Stanley Armitage (see 29^th March), William John Beeby (see 29^th March), Joe Arthur Bentley (see 29^th March), John Blackburn (see 29^th March), Samuel Cordingley (see 29^th March), David Eli Dyson (see 29^th March), Albert Edon (see 29^th March), James Albert Garbutt (see 29^th March), George Green (22749) (see 29^th March), Joseph Hirst (29641) (see 29^th March), James Knight (see 29^th March), Tom Midgley (see 29^th March), Henry Pike (see 29^th March), Tom Platts MM (see 29^th March), James Proctor (see 29^th March), Eddy Speak (see 29^th March), Alfred Spence (see 29^th March), Samuel Stansfield (see 29^th March), William Stokes (see 29^th March), Harry Sugden (see 29^th March), Albert Edward Trevor (see 29^th March), Fred Melton Vasey (see 29^th March), George Wheatley (see 29^th March), Arthur Walter Williams (see 29^th March) and Ernest Wilson (11751) (see 29^th March) were posted back to England from Le Havre and would be formally demobilized from the Dispersal centre at Ripon over the following few days. 

Pte. Leonard Briggs (see 22^nd February), who had been serving as a batman at 69^th Brigade HQ was also posted back to England for demobilization


Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 27^th October 1918) was appointed to a staff post in ‘Class bb’; the details of this appointment are unknown.

Maj. Edward Borrow DSO

Pte. Frederick McKell (see 6^th March), who had been serving in France with 1^st/7^thDWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

A payment of £23 1s. 8d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war gratuity of £15) to the late Pte. Alfred Ambler (see 12^th October 1918) who had been killed in action on 12^th October 1918 while serving in France with 1^st/6^th DWR; the payment would go jointly to his father, George, and mother, Sarah.

A payment of £21 19s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war gratuity of £10) to the late Pte. George Towler Brown (see 28^thOctober) who had died of wounds on 28^th October 1918; the payment would go to his mother, Ellen. She would also receive a package of her late son’s personal effects, comprising of, ‘wallet, watch in case (broken)’.