Monday 21st July 1919

2Lt. Archibald (Archie) Allen (see 4^th March), who been released from the Army having been wounded in June 1918, appeared before a further Army Medical Board assembled in Birmingham. The Board found that he “remains in the same condition. There is still marked limitation of movement of left shoulder joint owing to the large scar adherent to ribs on left side of chest which, running across chest from axilla, prevents the arm being raised more than a right angle”.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L. Cpl. Raymond Douglas Tilbrook (see 5^th September 1916), who had been killed in action in September 1915; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah.

Robert E. Mercer, serving in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, wrote to the War Office; he was the son of Maj. Stephen Minchin Mercer, ASC (see 27^th June), who had died a month previously. “I have had a communication from Capt. J.F. Cutler, commanding RASC, Leeds, informing me of my father’s death and advising me to write to you with reference to his effects. Would you kindly advise me what effects etc. are in the possession of the War Office belonging to my father and what methods I would have to adopt to obtain same”.