Thursday 1st May 1919

2Lt. Fred Swale (see 27^th February), serving with 9^th West Yorks., was promoted Lieutenant.

Lt. Fred Swale with his wife

Image by kind permission of Joan Rigg and family

L.Cpl. Robert Holdsworth (see 1^st June 1917) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Robert Henry Arnold MM (see 19^th March) wrote, from his home at Rathduff House, Golden, Cashel, County Tipperary, to the Infantry Records Office in York, “I am writing to find out if I can get the Military Medal, the ribbon of which I received whilst on active service in Italy. I was awarded the medal for service rendered in a bombing raid which took place on the night of 25^th and 26^th of June 1918. My regimental number is 29563 and my regiment 9 Platoon, C Company, 10^th West Riding Regiment. I have been demobilized about two months. So will you inform me at earliest possible date if I could get the medal as I am now residing in Ireland”.

A payment of £11 18s. 2d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Cpl. Thomas Lloyd (see 11^th October 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1918 while serving in France with 1^st/7^th DWR; the payment would be divided between his adoptive mother, Mrs. Marian Bottomley, who received £6 8s. 2d., and his brother, Charles, who received £5.