Tuesday 15th April 1919

Ptes. Walter Clarke (see 8^th April) and John William Kirby (see 8^th April), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, were discharged from hospital and re-joined their Battalion.

Pte. Charles Oldham (see 23^rd September 1918), serving in France with 5DWR, was posted back to England for demobilization.

Ptes. Joseph Hirst (24181) (see 10^th December 1918) and Louis Hodgson (see 19^th February), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, were formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of wounds suffered in action. Pte. Hirst was assessed as having a 30% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 11s. per week for three months, reducing thereafter to 8s. 3d. per week and to be reviewed after one year. Pte. Hodgson’s disability was assessed as being 70% and he was awarded a pension of 19s. 3d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Stanley Arthur Lucas (see 14^th January 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; his father, Arthur, was awarded 5s. per week, backdated to 6^th November 1918.