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Monday 1 July 2019

Wednesday 2nd July 1919

While serving with the Irish Guards at Caterham, Surrey Pte. Michael Cooney MM (see 19th September 1918) (it is not known when, or under what circumstances he had been transferred from 10DWR) was tried by Field General Court Martial on a charge of desertion; he was found guilty and was sentenced to 28 days detention.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Oliver Stancliffe (see 4th May 1917) who had been killed in the German shelling of Ypres in January 1917; his father, Charles, was awarded 5s. per week, backdated to 6th November 1918.

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