Monday 1st December 1919

Ptes. Thomas Henry Bennett (see 14^th September), Tom Clay (see 4^th September), Joseph Harpin (see 14^th September) and James Frederick Palmer (see 14^th September), who had been serving on attachment from 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Scutari (modern day Uskudar) in Istanbul, were posted back to England for demobilization.


A partial payment was made of the war gratuity due in respect of the late CSM James Davis MM (see 6^th May 1918), who had died of wounds in June 1917; his widow, Charlotte, who had re-married and was now Mrs. Charlotte Preskey, would receive £6 10s. The reason why the balance, of £13, would remain, as yet, unpaid, is unknown.

CSM James Davis MM

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Smith Hesselden (see 29^th January), who had died of wounds in July 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Lily.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Fred Ainley (see 4^th December 1917) who had been killed in the German shelling of Ypres in January 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Emma.

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. George Bentley (see 30^th January), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Daisy.

Payment of a £6 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Leonard Watling (see 17^th June), who had died of wounds in October 1917; the payment would go to his grandmother and legatee, Ann Eliza Debenham.

Payment of a £6 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Walter Kenyon Whitehead (see 13^th February 1918) who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his executors, his father William and his married sister, Alice Arguile.