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Wednesday 20 November 2019

Friday 21st November 1919

Ptes. Arthur Hodgson (see 6th May 1917), Henry Holroyd (see 31st October 1917), John Roebuck (see 1st June) and Pte. Lewis Walton (see 5th July), serving with 1DWR in India, embarked onboard the City of Sparta at Karachi to travel to England for demobilization.

Lt. John Charles Brison Redfearn (see 9th February) formally relinquished his commission on grounds of ill health.

Payment of a £15 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. John Thomas Hall MM (see 14th November 1917) who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his father, John.



Payment of a £16 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. Arthur Boorman (see 10th July 1918), who had died in February 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Edith.

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Herbert Briggs (see 26th April 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Robert.

Payment of a £3 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Henry Harry Jolly (see 24th February), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Ada, in spite of the fact that she had been declared ineligible for an Army pension.

Pte. Henry Harry Jolly
Payment of a £9 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Kit Ralph (see 30th April 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his sister, Kate.

Pte. Kit Ralph
Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Gnr. George Thistlethwaite (see 21st February), who had died of wounds in February 1918; the payment would go to his father, John.

Gnr. George Thistlethwaite



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