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Monday, 9 September 2019

Wednesday 10th September 1919


CSM Albert Blackburn DCM (see 5th June), who had been transferred to Class Z in March, was granted an Army pension on account of his wounds; he would receive 10s. 8d. per week, to be reviewed after ten months.

Payment of a £5 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late 2Lt. Geoffrey Raymond Palmer (see 1st November 1916), who had been killed in action in July 1916.

2Lt. Geoffrey Raymond Palmer
Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Tom Clarkson (see 5th July 1916) who had been killed in action on 5th July 1916. The payment would go to his widow, Grace Brown; since Tom Clarkson’s death, she had re-married, in early 1917, to Albert Brown.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Trevor Roseberry Haigh (see 11th October 1916) who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Elizabeth.

Payment of an £11 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. James Mullock (see 3rd March 1918), who had been killed in action on 17th October 1917; the payment would go to his widowed mother, Alice.

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