Wednesday 3rd September 1919

Sgt. Arthur Manks (see 11^th June), on attachment from 3DWR to a Prisoner of War camp at East Boldon near Sunderland, was awarded a war gratuity of £31 10s.

There was a revision of the pension award which had been made to L.Cpl. Joseph Simpson (see 22^nd February), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in February. He was now re-assessed as having suffered a 30% disability, based upon both his wounds and ‘valvular disease of the heart’; his weekly pension was increased from 8s. 3d. to 15s., to be reviewed after one year.



There was a revision of the pension award which had been made to Pte. Myers Atkinson (see 11^th February), who had been discharged from the Army having had his left leg amputated below the knee. He was now reassessed as having suffered a 50% disability and and his pension was increased from 13s. 9d. per week to £1 11s. 9d.. Myers Atkinson had returned to Shipley, where he would later work as a nightwatchman; he would die in 1960, aged 74.

An Army Medical Board reviewed the case of Pte. Frank Easterby (see 5^th March 1919), who had been discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds in March; he was now to be allowed an additional 5s. per week allowance to take account of his wife as a dependent.
Payment of a £6 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Henry Jowett (see 25^th May 1916), who had been killed in action in March 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Nancy Jowett.

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Edward Tetlow (see 26^th December 1916), who had been killed in June whilst attached to 181^st Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers; the payment would go to his mother, Eliza.