Wednesday 11th June 1919

Sgt. Arthur Manks (see 30^th November 1918), on attachment from 3DWR to a Prisoner of War camp at Barlby, near Ripon, was transferred to another camp at East Boldon near Sunderland.

Pte. Albert Edward Ford (see 2^nd July 1917) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z on account of wounds suffered in action; he was assessed as having a 30% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 8s.3d. per week, to be reviewed after six months. He had been suffering from neurasthenia having been buried by a shell explosion in July 1917; the details of his treatment are unknown but it was stated that he had been “treated at various military hospitals in the UK; after travelling in train collapsed, unable to speak, twitching of muscles of head and neck; insomnia; very nervous. Board states symptoms of neurasthenia have now disappeared”. He would be re-examined by a further medical board nine days later which would report that, “Not so well since discharge; pains in head twice weekly; sleep delayed and disturbed; occasional war dreams; depressed at times; hesitation in traffic; reflexes normal; introspective; self-opinionated”.

Pte. Albert Edward Ford (standing, left)

Image by kind permission of Kirstie Ford

Pte. Sam Sunderland (see 10^th April), who had recently been transferred to Class Z, appeared before an Army Medical Board assembled in Bradford. The Board found that, having had the little finger of his left hand amputated, he should be awarded a gratuity of £26 in lieu of any further pension payments.

Pte. Arthur Foster MM (see 26^th March) wrote to the Infantry Record Office in York, “I was awarded the Military Medal in March 1917 and I have not yet received same, would you kindly look into the matter for me”.