Thursday 22nd May 1919

Pte. Henry Edgar Grass (see 27^th March), serving in India with 1DWR, was appointed (Acting) Lance Corporal.

Pte. Samuel Wilkinson (see 4^th April), who was under treatment for gonorrhoea at 2^nd Western General Hospital in Manchester, was reported as, ‘breaking out of hospital and absent without leave from 9pm until 9.30pm’; four days later he would be discharged from hospital and posted to 2DWR.

Pte. Herbert Greenwood Audsley (see 5^th January 1918), who had been serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to defective vision. A medical report recorded that, “His sight has been bad since he was five years old. At 10 or 12 years old he was operated on for double cataracts. Was classed A1 on enlistment and was not examined he says. Was sent to France where he was at once sent to ophthalmic surgeon who recommended him for permanent base duties. Medical Board then marked him unfit for service in France and he was sent to England where he was recategorized Cii. This man is quite unfit for guard duty and should only be in an employment battalion at most. I recommend he be demobilized”. Although it was stated that his disability was neither due to, nor aggravated by, active service, he was awarded an Army pension of 16s. 6d. per week for 15 months.