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.