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Thursday 12 December 2019

Saturday 13th December 1919


Pte. John William Bonner MM (see 27th October 1918) was officially transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was assessed as having suffered a 5% disability on account of gunshot wounds to his back and was awarded an Army pension of 5s. 6d. per week; the date and detail of his wounding have not been established.

Sgt. William Walker Rossall MM (see 21st October); and Ptes. Charles Frederick Riddial (see 21st October) and Alfred Whittaker (see 21st October), who had been serving with 8th Battalion Yorks. and Lancs., were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.  

Payment of a £13 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Sam Phillips (see 4th September 1917), who had been killed in the German shelling of Ypres in December 1916; the payment would be divided in a one-third to two-thirds ratio between his widow, Ada, who received £4 6s. 8d., and his daughter, Dora, who received £8 13s. 4d.. 

Payment of a £10 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Michael Gallagher (see 24th April 1918), who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.


Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Tom Horsfall (see 10th April 1918), who had died of wounds in October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Thomas, his mother, Mary, having died in November 1918.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Charlie Long (see 22nd September 1917) who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Joseph. His mother, Sarah, would also be awarded (date unknown) a pension of 12s. per week in respect of both Charlie and his brother, L.Cpl. Horace Long, who had died of wounds in December 1917, having served with 1st/6th West Yorks.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Ernest Taylor (29168) (see 21st January), who had died of wounds in July 1918 while serving in France with 1st/6th DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Elizabeth.

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