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.