Tuesday 22nd April 1919

Pte. Rowland Firby (see 28^th November 1918), serving in France with 13DWR, was appointed Acting Corporal (unpaid).

Pte. Edgar Bairstow (see 8^th March), who was serving with 3DWR at Crosby, was reported as ‘absent off pass from 11.55pm’; he would report back at 10.30pm the following day and would be ordered to undergo two days’ Field Punishment no.2.

Ptes. Fred Hargreaves (29267) (see 22^nd March), Richard Henry Harris (see 17^th April) and Frank Mallinson MM (see 24^th February) were officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. 

Pte. Fred Hargreaves (29267)

Image by kind permission of Patrick Hargreaves

Ernest Webb, brother of Pte. Edward Percy Webb MM (see 18^th October 1918), who had been missing in action since the trench raid on 26th August 1918, wrote to the Infantry Records Office in York, “My mother has received notification from the Regimental Paymaster, York, that the 7s. per week she has been receiving as allowance has now been stopped and I conclude therefore that my brother is now officially reported killed”. The Record Office would reply two days later, stating that, “Nothing officially has been received in this office to the effect that your brother has been presumed dead. When this is received it will be sent to his Mother at once”.