Tuesday 3rd June 1919

L.Cpl. Clarence Smith (see 18^th February) and Ptes. Joseph Barnes (see 18^th February), Herbert Crowther Kershaw (see 18^th February) and Alfred Whittaker (see 27^th April), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

Pte. Ernest Ashness (see 25^th April), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, was reported as having been ‘absent from roll call 9pm to 10pm’; he would be confined to barracks for seven days.

Pte. Ernest Jones (see 2^nd December 1918), who had been in England since having been wounded in October 1918, made an official written request from Chester War Hospital, asking that the military authorities might ‘grant me permission to get married on 11^th June 1919 at Chester’.

Cpl. Howarth Reid (see 21^st April) and Ptes. Walter Ellis (see below), Irvin Mallinson (in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man) Herman Middleton (see below) and Frank William Rabjohn (see 4^th May) and Arthur Wylie (see 21^st April) were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Walter Ellis had served with both 1^st/7^th and 9DWR before being transferred (date and details unknown) to 10DWR; in the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man. Herman Middleton had originally enlisted in February 1915, aged 19 and working as a mechanic in Halifax. He had served with 8DWR before being transferred (date and details unknown) to 10DWR. He would claim an Army pension on grounds of ‘V.D.H. (valvular disease of the heart), bronchitis and scabies’ but his claim would be rejected.

Pte. Joseph Jones (see 29^th July 1916), who had been serving with 2DWR, was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

The King’s Birthday Honours List, as published in the London Gazette, included awards to a number of men from 10DWR. Capt. Paul James Sainsbury (see 15^th March) and Capt. Rev. Hugh Wilfrid Todd (see 6^th January) were awarded the Military Cross; Sgt. James Walker MM (see 29th March) the Distinguished Conduct Medal; and RQMS Frank Stephenson (see 28^th February), Sgt. George Richard Goodchild (see 1^st February) and Sgt. Harry Smith (12240) (see 6^th May) the Meritorious Service Medal. A/Capt. Stanley Currington (see 30^th September 1918), serving with the RAF, was awarded the MBE.