Pte. Frank William
Rabjohn (see 21st April)
was posted back to England for demobilization.
Pte.
James Frederick Coldwell (see 8th March), serving with
8th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, departed for England on two weeks’
leave.
2Lt.
William Jones MM (see 21st April 1918) was
formally discharged from the Army as no longer medically fit for service on
account of “right mastoid operation; rheumatism; D.A.H contracted on active
service” (D.A.H. was Disordered Action of the Heart' otherwise known as
'Soldier's Heart' or 'Effort Syndrome'). He was at the time attached to 1/6
Cyclist Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. His address on discharge was to be Knot
Hill, Armathwaite, Carlisle.
Cpl. Albert Leech
(see 8th September 1917) and
Ptes. William Edmond Smith (see 4th April) and Arthur Walter Williams (see 4th April) were formally
transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.
Following the recent correspondence from Alfred Pass snr.,
the father of 2Lt. Alfred Ernest Pass
(known as ‘Alf’) (see 28th
April), who had been officially missing in action since the raid on the
Asiago Plateau in August 1918, the War Office now confirmed that “No further
official report has been received. Enquiries through the Netherlands Legation
have been without result. In view of the lapse of time since anything has been
heard of this Officer his name is put forward for presumption of death”.
2Lt. Alfred Ernest Pass |
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