Thursday 24th April 1919

Pte. Alfred Whittaker (see 8^th April), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, was discharged from hospital and re-joined his Battalion.

A/Maj. John Atkinson (see 4^th March), second-in-command 51^st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, was appointed as Commandant, Western Divisional Reception Camp as part of the army of occupation in Germany.

Capt. John Atkinson (seated centre)

The photograph was taken in the Spring of 1916; of the six, only Atkinson and Waite survived the war.

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 24^th March), returned from leave to 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth for further treatment for the wounds he had suffered in October 1918. 

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

Pte. Thomas James Hogben (see 4^th December 1918), who had been serving with 3DWR since having been wounded in August 1918, was formally discharged from the Army on account of his wounds. He was assessed as having a 40% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 11s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Pte. Ernest Normanton (see 21^st September 1918) was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. At the time of his discharge he was serving with 2DWR; the date and circumstances of his leaving 10DWR are unknown.

Pte. John Henshall (see 7^th January), who had been serving in India with 1DWR, was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Reports were received at the Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries confirming the reburial at Tezze British Cemetery of the remains of more than 60 British soldiers killed in the crossing of the Piave River on 27^th October 1918 and in the actions of the following days. These men had originally been buried in isolated battlefield locations or in local cemeteries. Among them were the remains of one officer and ten men from 10DWR: Capt. Bob Perks DSO (see 7th April), Sgt. Frank Brierley MM (see 17^th April); L.Cpl. William George Golding (see 27^th October 1918); and Ptes. Arthur Flowers (see 27^th October 1918); James Harrison (see 27^th October 1918); William Hassall (see 27^th October 1918); Fred Heap (see 26^th March); Thomas Henry Hemingway (see 1^st April); James Isaac King (see 27^th October 1918); James Henry Quiller (see 27^th October 1918) and Squire Topham (see 1^st April).