Sunday 13th April 1919

Ptes. John Chadwick Taylor (see 18^th February) and Herbert John Wicks (see 18^th February), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, departed on two weeks’ leave to England

Pte. Ernest Townsend (see 2^nd April), serving with 3DWR in Oswestry, was reported as “overstaying special leave from 11.55pm”; he would “report himself to the CSM at 1pm on 14^th April”; he was ordered to be confined to barracks for seven days.

Pte. Whittaker Hird (see 4^th October 1916), who had been transferred to the Labour Corps (date and details unknown) since having been wounded in October 1916, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Sydney Hoar (see 28^th September 1918), who had been transferred to the Labour Corps, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

A payment was authorised of a £200 ‘wound pension’ to 2Lt. Billy Oldfield MM (see 14^th November 1918), who had been severely wounded in April while serving in France with 1^st/4^th DWR and was still at 2^nd Northern General Hospital in Leeds.

2Lt. Billy Oldfield MM

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton