Friday 28th November 1919

Pte. Charles Clear (see 9^th May), serving with the 2^nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment at Kirkee Barracks, Colchester, was reported as having been ‘late falling in on parade’; he would be confined to barracks for four days.

Payment of a £10 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Luke Dawson (see 23^rd July 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Sarah.

Sgt. Luke Dawson (standing right)

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. John Henry Hitchin (see 16^th October 1918), who had been killed in the sinking of the troopship HMS Aragon in December 1917; the payment would go to his father, John.

Cpl. John Henry Hitchin

Payment of a £15 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. Joseph Smith (12748) MM (see 24^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Thomas.

Payment of a £12 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Wilfred Cornelius Allott (see 11^th April), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Grace.

Payment of an £18 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Walter Limmer (see 31^st March), who had died of wounds in September 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Alice.

Pte. Walter Limmer

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Stanley Arthur Lucas (see 15^th April), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Arthur.


Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Clifford George Unwin (see 31^st May 1917) who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would be divided equally between his married sister, Blanche McEnnerney, and Miss Ivy Brayshaw, who may have been his ‘sweetheart’.

Pte. Clifford George Unwin

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John (Jack) Williams (see 10^th April 1918), who had died of wounds in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Elizabeth. 

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Joseph Henry Woodcock (see 8^th April 1918), who had died of wounds on 30^th September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Ethel.