Friday 13th June 1919

Pte. Fred Abbey (see 21^st October 1917), who, since having been wounded in October 1917, had been transferred to 9DWR and eventually to 1^st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer fit for military service.

Pte. Thomas Young (25815) (see 29^th October 1917) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; at some point (date and details unknown) he had been transferred from 10DWR to the Machine Gun Corps.

Pte. James Spencer was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he had been an original member of 10DWR and, at some point (date and details unknown), he had been transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps. He had enlisted in 1914, aged 25, married, with one son and living in Brighouse. In the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to establish any details of his military career.

Clara Petty, widow of the late Pte. Arthur Tempest (see 1^st February), who had re-married in January wrote to the authorities having received the form to be completed giving details of her late husband’s surviving relatives: “Just a line in answer to the form seeing as I have re-married I don’t really know what to do about it, as I have been married again since 1^st February this year”. She would be requested simply to complete the form, which she duly did.