Thursday 5th June 1919

A/L.Cpl. James Sugden (see 21^st April) and Pte. Charles Frederick Riddial (see 2^nd March), serving in Fiume with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs., departed on two weeks’ leave to England.

Pte. Frederick William Warner (see 29^th April), serving with 3DWR, was admitted to the Military Hospital at Pembroke Dock, suffering from eczema and impetigo; he would be discharged to duty six days later.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 24^th April), who was under treatment at 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth for the wounds he had suffered in October 1918, was granted one month’s leave, on the expiry of which he was to return to hospital. He was also granted a further gratuity of £50, in respect of the wounds to his jaw.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

The London Gazette published the list of men mentioned in the Earl of Cavan’s despatches on 18^th January 1919 for service in Italy. The list included a number of officers and men of 10DWR: Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 11^th March); Maj. William Norman Town (see 20^th May); Lt. Andrew Aaron Jackson (see 31^st January); Lt. William George Wade (see 9^th February); 2Lt. Cyril Edward Agar (see 7^th April); 2Lt. John William Pontefract (see 20^th January); CSM Albert Blackburn DCM (see 7^th March); Sgt. John Ratlidge MM (see 29^th March); and Sgt. Harold Best MM (see 25^th February).

A payment of £45 9s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war gratuity of £24) to the late Pte. James Harrison (see 24^th April), who had been killed in action on 27^th October 1918; the payment would go, in three equal shares, to his mother Martha and his sisters, Bertha and Annie.