Saturday 1st November 1919

L.Cpl. John William Kirby (see 9^th September), who had been in England on leave from 8^th Yorks. and Lancs., was transferred to 3^rd Yorks. and Lancs.

Payment of a £7 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Joseph Clayton (see 21^st November 1917), who had died in November 1917 whilst serving with 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion at Gateshead; the payment would go to his father, William.


A payment of £10 14s. 11d. comprising the amount due in pay and allowances, along with a war gratuity of £8 10s., was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Matthew Henry Jubb (see 10^th June), who had died of wounds behind German lines in April 1918, while serving with 1^st/4^th DWR; the payment would go his widow, Annie.

Friday 31st October 1919

Payment of a £15 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. John Hudson (see 17^th May 1918), who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.

Sgt. John Hudson

Payment of a £12 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Harry Lyddington Mason (see 12^th June 1917), who had been killed in action in September 1916; the payment would go to his father, John.

Sgt. Harry Lyddington Mason

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Sydney Exley (see 18^th May 1918), who had died of wounds on 3^rd December 1917; the payment would go to his father, Albert.


Payment of a £3 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Norman Wright (see 28^th August 1918), who had been officially missing in action since September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Henry.


Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Fred Greenwood (12115) (see 24^th December 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Beatrice.


Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Thomas William Jones (see 13^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Harriet.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Joe Kaye (see 28^th February 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary Ann.



Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Lewis Sykes (see 24^th December 1917) who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Minnie.

Thursday 30th October 1919

L.Cpl. Henry Edgar Grass (see 19^th September), serving in India with 1DWR, embarked onboard the SS Sicilia at Karachi to return to England for demobilization.

Payment of a £7 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Sgt. Fred Light Pashley (see 21^st November 1918), who had been presumed dead having been posted ‘missing in action’ on 20^th September 1917; there had been an exchange of correspondence regarding who should be the beneficiaries of his estate and the payment would go to his mother, Annie.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. Dennis Bradbury (see 15^th October 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would be divided evenly between his two married sisters, Edith Armitage and Emily Muschamp.

Payment of a £12 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. George Benson Heap (see 22^nd May 1918), who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Annie.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Nicholson Braddock (see 30^th January 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Ann.


Payment of a £14 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Arthur Cole (see 29^th May 1918), who had been killed in action in November 1917 while serving with 2^nd/6^th DWR; the payment would go to his mother, Jemima.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Henry Marshall (see 4^th December 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Samuel.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harold Precious (see 8^th December 1918) who had died at the East Leeds War Hospital on 4^th July 1918, a month after having been wounded; the payment would go to his mother, Ann.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Hector Salembier (see 27^th November 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; Salembier’s father being French, the payment was to be made via the Consul General of France. However, the family’s application for an Army pension had been rejected.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harry Towell (see 6^th November 1918), who had been killed in action on 5^th July 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.

Wednesday 29th October 1919

Payment of a £12 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. James William Brennan (see 18^th December 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his sister-in-law, Harriet, who was guardian to his three children.


Payment of a £5 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Fred Crabtree (see 15^th May 1918), who had been reported missing in action in May while serving with 2DWR; the payment would go to his father, Thomas.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harry Hey (25170) (see 22^nd December 1917), who had died of wounds in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Lily.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Anthony Lofthouse (see 10^th October 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, John.

Pte. Anthony Lofthouse

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Richard Nelson (see 19^th December 1917), who had been killed in action on 7^th June; the payment would go to his mother, Emma.

Tuesday 28th October 1919

Payment of an £12 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late A/Sgt. Lewis Thomas King (see 4^th April 1917), who had died of wounds in August 1916; the payment would go to his widow, Ada.

A/Sgt. Lewis Thomas King

Image by kind permission of Clair Almond

Payment of an £11 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. James Edward Kaye (see 7^th December 1917), who had died of wounds in June 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Eliza.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harold Anderton (see 6^th November 1918) who had been killed in action in January 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Emma.


Payment of a £5 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harold Firth (see 15^th September 1917), who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his father, Sam.


Payment of a £10 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Holdsworth (see 13^th August 1917) who had died of wounds in February 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Elizabeth.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Frank Horner (see 17^th January 1917), who had been killed in action in August 1916; the payment would go to his father, Robert.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Charles Arthur Stott (see 7^th June 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Marcella.

Pte. Charles Arthur Stott

Payment of a £5 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Joseph William Sutcliffe (see 17^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Willie.

Monday 27th October 1919

Pte. Harry Mawson (see 11^th October 1918) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of wounds; he was assessed as having suffered a 10% but the details of any ension award are unknown.

Payment of a £10 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl William Rawnsley, MM (see 7^th July) who had died of wounds in November 1916; the payment would go to his father, Kendal.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Charlie Branston (see 28^th August 1918) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Hannah.

Pte. Charlie Branston

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harold Illingworth Cawthra (see 22^nd August 1917) who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his father, Joseph.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Joe Dyson (see 10^th December 1917), who had been killed in action on 23^rd May 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Maud.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arthur Heeley (see 7^th November 1917), who had died of wounds on 12^th June 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Sarah.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Walter Lingwood (see 12^th February 1917) who had died of wounds in October 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Mrs. Rose Cunningham.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arthur Prestwood (see 18^th March 1918), who had died of wounds on 22^nd September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Elsie. Early in 1920 Elsie Prestwood would marry Charles Brown.


Payment of a £5 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Donald Stewart (see 31^st December 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917 while serving with 69^th Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps; the payment would go to his mother, Sarah Jane.

Payment of a £5 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Samuel Wilson (see 14^th January 1918), who had been killed in action on 7^th June 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Annie.

Sunday 26th October 1919

Pte. Gerald Pullen (see 5^th July 1917) was formerly transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he had originally served with 10DWR but at some point (date and details unknown) he had been transferred to 2DWR and from there to 13DWR.


Pte. Selwyn Stansfield (see 8^th February), who had been serving with 13DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.  

Saturday 25th October 1919

Pte. James Austin (see 16^th September) was discharged from a convalescent hospital in Eastbourne as being fit for discharge from the Army.


Pte. Harold Wider (see 8^th February), who had been serving with 13DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Hubert Henry (‘Bertie’) Greensmith (see 16^th August 1917), who had been killed on 24^th January 1917; the payment would go to his father, William.

Friday 24th October 1919

Payment of a £5 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. James Buckley Kenworthy (see 27^th May 1918), who had been presumed dead having officially missing in action since 7^th June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Charles.


Payment of a £5 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Michael Edward McCuen (known as ‘Teddy’) (see 10^th August 1917), who had had died of wounds on 24^th April 1917; the payment would go to his father, Daniel.


Payment of a £9 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Frederick Miller (see 21^st February 1918) who had been killed in action on 7^th June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Hermann.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Albert Sunderland (see 1^st October 1917), who had died of wounds in June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Samuel.

Thursday 23rd October 1919

Pte. John Yeates (see 27^th October 1918) was transferred to the Army Reserve Class B; this class of reserve was for men who had completed their service in the regular army and were serving their normal period (typically of five years) on reserve. Section B reservists could only be called upon in the event of general mobilisation; pay was 3s. 6d. per week.

Ptes. Edward Glossop and Victor William Grundy were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; both had originally served with 1^st/4^th DWR before being transferred (date and details unknown) to 10DWR. Victor William Grundy was 21 years old and from Sheffield; I am unable to make a positive identification of Edward Glossop.

Lt. George Reginald Percy MC (see 30^th June), who had formally relinquished his commission four months previously, departed from Immingham onboard the SS Glenamoy, bound for Penang; he would take up employment with the Public Works Department in Bagan Serai, in modern day Malaysia.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Henry Downs (see 18^th December 1917) who had died of wounds on 8^th June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Thomas.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Sydney Fox (see 9^th July 1917), who had been killed in the German shelling of Ypres in January 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Rosina.


Payment of a £4 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Anthony Hudson (see 29^th January 1917), who had been killed in action in December 1915; the payment would go to his married sister, Mrs. Fanny Hall.

Wednesday 22nd October 1919

Pte. James Pidgeley (see 18^th September) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


The amount of weekly pension payable to William Murphy (see 21^st January 1916), who had been discharged from the Army in December 1915, was increased from £1 8s. per week to £1 12s.

Payment of a £16 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Acting CQMS Thomas Doyne (see 27^th August 1917), who had been accidentally killed in February 1917; the payment would go to his daughter and sole legatee, Eileen. His widow, Bridget, was an inmate at Richmond Asylum, Dublin.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Butterfield (see 16^th July 1917) who had been killed in action in January 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah.

Payment of a £13 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Reuben Smith (see 26^th April 1918), who had died of wounds in June 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Emily.

Pte. Reuben Smith

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Jacob Sweeting (see 20^th December 1917) who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Edith.


The Infantry Records Office wrote to Mrs. Lilian Clark, widow of the late L.Cpl. Arthur Clark MM (25966) (see 7^th April), who had been officially missing in action since 26^th August 1918, regarding the despatch of the Military Medal which had been awarded to her late husband. In reply, Mrs. Clark would request that the medal be presented to her in public. She would also ask, “Would you please give me particulars of how the award of the MM was reported as we should like to know how he came to be awarded the MM”.

Tuesday 21st October 1919

8^th Battalion Yorks. and Lancs., which had been stationed in Malta, was posted back to England; the former 10DWR men who are known to have been transferred with the Battalion were A/CQMS James Allen (see 13^th September), Sgts. Ronald Jeckell (see 13^th September) and William Walker Rossall MM (see 13^th September); A/Sgt. William Edward Varley (see 13^th September), Cpl. Victor Race MM (see 13^th September); L.Cpl. John Jackson (19555) (see 13^th September); A/L.Cpl. James Sugden (see 13^th September); and Ptes. Ernest Ashness (see 13^th September), Joseph Barnes (see 13^th September), Harry Beaumont (29306) (see 13^th September), Herbert Bibby (see 13^th September), Arthur Edward Bottomley (see 13^th September), Arthur Brook (see 13^th September), Joseph William Carter (see 13^th September), James Frederick Coldwell (see 13^th September), Hartley Gibb (see 13^th September), Edwin Haley (see 13^th September), Richard Harold Haresnape (see 13^th September), Albert Edward Victor Harris (see 13^th September), Herbert Crowther Kershaw (see 13^th September), James Henry Lomax (see 13^th September), Walter Norman (see 13^th September), Ernest Potter (see 13^th September), Edward Shaw Powell (see 13^th September), Martin Reddington (see 13^th September), Charles Frederick Riddial (see 13^th September), Thomas Wilson Shaw (see 13^th September), James Slinger (see 13^th September), Clarence Smith (see 13^th September), Herbert Stanley Smith (see 13^th September), Albert Stanley (see 13^th September), Harry Stephenson (see 13^th September), Arthur Wallis (see 13^th September), John Walton (see 23^rd May), Alfred Whittaker (see 22^nd August), Arthur Thomas Wilford (see 27^th April) and Irvin Wilkinson (see 13^th September).

Pte. John Willie Walmsley (see 26^th July 1917), who had been serving with the Machine Gun Corps, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. Matthew Woodward (see 25^th February), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in February, was awarded an Army pension, having been assessed as having suffered a 20% disability due to wounds (fractured tibia) and deafness suffered in service; he was awarded 8s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Payment of a £12 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Ackroyd (see 31^st October 1917), who had been killed in action in May while serving in France with 2DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Edith.

Payment of a £4 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Crossley (see 5^th July 1918), who had died on 21^st December 1917; the payment would go to his married sister, Ada Robinson.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Fred Greenwood (29340) (see 31^st May 1917), who had been killed in action in Feruary 1917; the payment would go to his father, William.


Payment of a £14 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. Albert Harold Hanson (see 20^th February 1918), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Frederick.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Herbert Hodgkins (see 11^th December 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Joseph.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Reginald Parish (see 14^th September 1917), who had died of wounds in June 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Alice.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harold Pape (see 29^th October 1917), who had died of wounds on 9^th June 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Ellen.

Monday 20th October 1919

Lt. Leopold Henry Burrow (see 30^th September), serving at 4^th Prisoner of War Depot in France, was posted back to England for demobilization.


Pte. William George Ruddock MM (see 14^th September), who was on leave in England fromm 8^th Yorks. and Lancs., wrote to the Infantry Records Office in York regarding his release from the Army, “Can you give me any information in regards to my release as my wife is expecting a child end of next month and I cannot find anyone to be with her. I have a doctor’s written statement to that effect and my employer wants me too as he cannot get anyone to fill my place as horseman on a farm. I am attached to the Discharge Centre at present and if things were not as they are at home Sir I should not have troubled you”.

Payment of a £16 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Thomas Sheldon (see 8^th April 1918), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Emma.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Herbert Bayfield (see 10^th September 1917) who had been killed in action in February 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Alice.

Payment of a £10 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harry Braithwaite (see 7^th June) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his widow, Eliza.  

Payment of a £10 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. George Gelling (see 6^th August 1917) who had been killed in January 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Julia.

Pte. George Gelling

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Francis Seed (see 4^th February 1918), who had been killed in action on 7^th June 1917; the payment would go to his widow his widow, Ann.

Payment of an £11 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Oliver Stancliffe (see 2^nd July) who had been killed in the German shelling of Ypres in January 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Charlie Wilman (see 16^th April 1917), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his widow, Elsie.

Payment of a £3 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Jabez Wintersgill (see 8^th October 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Betsy.

Sunday 19th October 1919

Ptes. Benjamin Thomas Alcraft MM (see 26^th July), John Barrett (see 26th August 1918) and Frederick William Warner (see 26^th July), who had been serving with 2DWR, were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. John Barrett applied for an Army pension on the grounds of having suffered from “chole-cystitis and varicose veins”; however, it would be determined that his complaints were neither attributable to, nor aggravated by, his service, and his claim would be rejected.

L.Cpl. Herman Tutty (see 21^st September) and Ptes. Henry Fielding (see 21^st September), Joseph Hartley (see 21^st September), Lancelot Johnson (see 21^st September) and John Chadwick Taylor (see 21^st September), who had been posted back to England from 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Saturday 18th October 1919

Pte. Charles Sidney Skelton (see 3^rd June 1918) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; having suffered ‘D.A.H.’ (D.A.H. was Disordered Action of the Heart' otherwise known as 'Soldier's Heart' or 'Effort Syndrome') during service he would be assessed as having a less than 20% disability and would be awarded an Army pension of 5s. 6d. per week.


Pte. John Henry Reynolds was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; in the absence of a surviving service record I am not able to make a positive identification of this men nor to establish when he joined 10DWR or any details of his military service.


The Infantry Records Office in York wrote to both Cpl. Stanley Arthur Bones (see 28^th February) and Pte. Herbert Smith MM (11837) (see 24^th March) in regard to the presentation of gallantry awards. Pte. Smith requested simply that his Military Medal be delivered to him, whereas Cpl. Bones requested a public ceremony for the presentation of his Croce de Guerra. In reply to Cpl. Bones, the Record Office would state that “Up to the present I have only received the Diploma which accompanies the award. When the decoration itself is received you will be communicated with again regarding the presentation of the same”.

Friday 17th October 1919

Pte. William Sam Aldrich (see 16^th December 1917) was posted back to England; it would appear that he had been ill but the details of his illness and treatment are unknown.

Pte. Albert William Knight (see 15^th June), who had been serving with 2/6^th DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Ptes. Walker North and Walter Simpson (32054) were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; in the absence of surviving service records I am unable to make a positive identification of either of these men nor to establish when they joined 10DWR or any details of their military service.

Payment of a £5 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harry Ambler (see 15^th May 1916), who had died of wounds on 25^th March 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Rosanna.

Payment of a £5 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Fred Brown (see 28^th December 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Alice Ann.

Pte. Fred Brown

Payment of a £12 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Tom Greenwood (see 25^th December 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Alice.

Pte. Tom Greenwood

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Ernest Smith (25187) (see 13^th May 1918), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Marian.


Payment of a £7 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Herbert Ernest Sutcliffe (see 10^th May 1917), who had been killed in October 1916; the payment would go to his widow, Hannah.

Thursday 16th October 1919

Ptes. John William Antill (see 31^st January), Willis Barker (see 5^th July 1917) and Herbert Newton (see 26^th July) were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


Pte. Fred Sutcliffe (see 2^nd August), who had been serving with 3DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Sgt. William McLoughlin (see 20^th December 1916), who had been killed in July 1916; £2 each would go to his brother Robert and married sister Aggie McQueen with the balance retained pending payment to his mother and to another (unnmamed) sister.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Richard Field (see 25^th July 1918), who had been killed in May 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Minnie.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Maurice Stead Hodgson (see 11^th December 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Mabel.


Payment of a £4 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. James Jackson (see 27^th June 1918), who had been killed in action on 21^st September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Rachel.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Charles Smith (29004) (see 27^th May 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Ann.

Wednesday 15th October 1919

Ptes. David Levey (see 8^th September 1917) and Walter Smith (235414) (see 8^th September 1917) were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arthur Cooper Clapham (see 28^th March 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, Matthew.

Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Fred Shackleton (see 11^th May 1917), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his father, Mitchell.

Payment of a £10 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. George Wilson Thompson (see 31^st July 1917), who had died in January 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Susan.

Tuesday 14th October 1919

A further report on the condition of Carl Parrington Branthwaite (see 3^rd April), who had been permanently discharged from the Army on account of TB contracted in service, was recorded; “Dyspnoea, cough, weakness and exhaustion on walking; wound, right side, inferior angle of scapula, discharge; emaciated and anxious; scars as above; right chest flattened and little movement; dullness; VF and VR increased; bronchial breathing; no crepitation”. He was confirmed as permanently unfit and to remain in a convalescent hospital. His pension of 27s. 6d. per week was increased to 40s. per week and extended for a further six months, at the expiry of which he was to be re-examined.

Payment of a £12 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Samuel Butler (see 4^th May 1918), who had been killed in action in May 1917 while serving with 2DWR; the payment would go to his father, Samuel.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Robert Emson (see 26^th June 1917), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, William.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Martin Haran (see 16^th May 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Katherine.

Image by kind permission of Andy Wade and MenOfWorth

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Albert Senior (see 30^th March 1917), who had died of wounds in October 1916. The payment would go to his brother Ben (£7 5s. 9d.), but with a share of £1 4s. 3d. retained for payment to his married sister, Fanny Barker.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Samuel Sharp (see 11^th December 1917) who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Alice.

Monday 13th October 1919

A/Maj. John Atkinson (see 25^th August), who had been Commandant, Western Divisional Reception Camp as part of the army of occupation in Germany, was formally released from the Army.

A/Maj. John Atkinson (seated centre)

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

L.Cpl. Harold William Crowther (see 24^th June 1916) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


Pte. John Henry Evison (see 26^th July), who had been serving with 2DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he was also assessed as having suffered a 20% disability due to wounds and was awarded an Army pension of 8s. per week.


Pte. Joseph Renshaw (see 8^th February), who had been serving with 13DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


Payment of an £11 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Herbert Horatio Millican (see 16^th April 1918), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Emily.

Sunday 12th October 1919

Pte. Thomas Henry Cox (25806) (see 12^th April), who was serving at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia, departed for England on two weeks’ leave.


Pte. Alfred Bogg (see 24^th March 1917), who had been serving with 2^nd/4^thDWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


Pte. Percival William Hall (see 26^th July), who had been serving with 2DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


Payment of a £5 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John William Clark (20782) (see 20^th November 1918), who had died of wounds in June 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Rosanna.

Saturday 11th October 1919

2Lt. Joseph Barrett Hartley MC (see 15^th March), who had been serving with 2^nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was released from his temporary. He stated his address on discharge as being Harrington House, Earby, with his occupation as cotton manufacturer.

2Lt. Joseph Barrett Hartley MC

An increase was authorised in the pension payable in respect of the late Sgt. James Leach (see 23^rd February 1919), who had died in January; his widow, Isabel, would now receive £2 1s. 1d. per week rather than the £1 2s. 11d. she had received hitherto.


Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. David Kendric Collins (see 25^th October 1916) who had been killed in action on 5^th July 1916; the payment would go to his father, James.


Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arthur Moore (see 4^th June 1917; who had been killed in action on 5^th July 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Harriet.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Overend (see 17^th September 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, William.


Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Frank Peel (see 6^th May 1917) who had died of wounds in October 1916; the payment would go to his married sister, Emily Peach.

Friday 10th October 1919

Lt. Leslie Guy Stewart Bolland MC (see 1^st June 1918), who had been serving in the Indian Army with 1^st/8^th Rajputs, relinquished his probationary appointment and left the Army.

Ptes. Joseph Formby (see 5^th July 1917) and Alexander Moir Walker (see 8^th September 1917) were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Payment of a £10 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Timothy Kennedy (see 10^th May 1917); in accordance with the terms of his will his brothers, Edward and Frank, would each receive £5.


The remains of the late Pte. Herbert Ridley (see 21^st October 1918) who had been killed in action in March 1918 while serving in France with 5DWR, were exhumed from a battlefield grave and would be re-interred at Gommecourt no.2 Cemetery. Although his grave had been ummarked, his remains had been identified by means of his identity disc. Eight other bodies were recovered from the same location and also re-interred; three of these were positively as other men of 5DWR, whilst the remaining five could not be positively identified, although two of them were identified as having been Dukes men.

Thursday 9th October 1919

Pte. Fred Clayton (see 23^rd July), who was serving with 505^th Prisoner of War Company at San Bonifacio, was posted back to England for demobilization.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John William Green (see 13^th June 1917) who had been killed in action in August 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Rosetta.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Herbert Milton Wood (see 30^th April 1917), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, Irvine.

Wednesday 8th October 1919

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Thomas Berry (see 23^rd June 1917), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment was initially to go to his father, Robinson, but, in January 1920, the original authority would be cancelled and the payment issued instead to his mother, Clara, as a result of Robinson having died in the Autumn of 1919.




Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. Herbert Waddington (see 22^nd December 1916), who had been killed in action in January 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Hannah.

Tuesday 7th October 1919

A/CQMS James Allen (see 13^th September), serving in Malta with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs., was confirmed in his rank.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 30^th August), who had been on leave having been under treatment at 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth for the wounds he had suffered in October 1918, returned to hospital.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

Payment of a £9 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harold Beighton (see 6^th February 1917), who had died of wounds in October 1916; the payment would go to his brother, and sole legatee, John.

Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Fred Benson (see 7^th April), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his widowed mother, Ann.

Pte. Fred Benson

Payment of an £11 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arthur Gill (see 6^th November 1918), who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his widowed mother, Helen.

Pte. Arthur Gill

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Rowland Greenwood (see 5^th May 1917), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his widow, Alice.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Archie Munro (see 1^st February 1917), who had been killed in action in October 1916 while serving with 2DWR; the payment would go to his father, Daniel.


Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Cecil Rhodes (see 7^th June 1917), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, James.

Monday 6th October 1919

Pte. George William Ball (see 11^th August), who was serving at Arquata Scrivia with the Military Foot Police, was reported for having been ‘in a café (in Genoa) during prohibited hours’; he would be ordered to be deprived of three days’ pay.

L.Cpl. John Jackson (19555) (see13^th September), serving in Malta with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs., was admitted to hospital (cause unknown); he would be discharged and re-join his Battalion after five days.

Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Francis Herbert Maltby (see 7^th February 1917), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his widowed mother, Sarah.

Pte. Francis Herbert Maltby

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Willie Waggitt (see 5^th April 1918), who had been killed at Le Sars in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, John.

L.Cpl. Willie Waggitt

Sunday 5th October 1919

A/Sgt. Fred Oldroyd (see 7^th September), L.Cpl. Charles Sidney Taylor (see 7^th September) and Ptes. Walter Clarke (see 7^th September), Walter Gee Wardley (see 7^th September) and Herbert John Wicks (see 7^th September), who had served with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs., were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


Cpl. Arthur Lee MM (see 1^st September), who had been serving in England with 1^st Battalion Yorks. and Lancs., was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.


Pte. George Smith (20340) (see 21^st April) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he was also awarded an Army pension of 8s. per week having suffered 20% disability due to ‘otitis media’ aggravated by his military service.


Pte. Maurice Whitaker was also formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he had originally served with 1^st/5^th DWR before being transferred to 10DWR, but, in the absence of a surviving service record, I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish any details of his service.

Saturday 4th October 1919

Payment of a £7 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Edward Kilburn (see 23^rd April 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his widow, Ethel.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Herbert Smith (200022) (see 12^th December 1917), who had died of wounds in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Elizabeth.

Friday 3rd October 1919

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arthur Julian (see 19^th August 1918), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his father, George.

Pte. Arthur Julian

Image by kind permission of Andy Wade and MenOfWorth

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. George Harold Toseland DCM (see 14^th February 1917) who had been killed in September 1916; the payment would go to his father, George William.

Pte. George Harold Toseland DCM

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arthur Edward Windsor (18^th July 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, Albert.

Thursday 2nd October 1919

Pte. Samuel Wilkinson (see 22^nd May) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; having been found to have suffered a less than 20% disability on account of ‘D.A.H.’ (‘Disordered Action of the Heart' otherwise known as 'Soldier's Heart' or 'Effort Syndrome') attributable to his service, he was awarded an Army pension of 5s. 6d. per week.

Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Reginald Butterfield (see 18^th October 1916) who had been killed in action with 9DWR in July 1916. The payment would go to his father, John.

Pte. John Reginald Butterfield

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Payment of a £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Arnold Crossley (see 12^th December 1917), who had died of wounds in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Florence.


Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Percy Hodgson (see 12^th October 1917), who had died of wounds in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, Thomas.

Pte. Percy Hodgson

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Harry Thornton (see 20^th November 1916), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his widowed mother, Louisa.

L.Cpl. Harry Thornton