Pte. Fred Brook (see 11th October 1918), who had been wounded while serving in France with 1st/4th DWR in October 1918, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was assessed as having suffered a 50% disability and was awarded an Army pension of £1 per week.
Pte.
George Jones received a letter from the Dukes’ Regimental Depot in Halifax
informing him that they were ‘in possession of a Princess Mary’s gift belonging
to 11967 CSM William Jones (later
commissioned as 2Lt. William Jones
MM, see 4th May), and as my name and address was recorded as
next of kin … asked if I would accept the gift’. He would reply the same day,
stating that, ‘I would be glad to receive the gift and would be pleased if they
would furnish me with further information regarding my brother, when and where
he died.
Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Alfred Rose Botterill (see 5th February 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Annie.
The Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries wrote to the father of 2Lt. Isidore David Marks (see 15th July), L.Cpl. James Kettlewell (see 25th January 1917), who had been killed near Contalmaison in 1916, to inform him that “in the process of exhumation for the purpose of the concentration of isolated graves into cemeteries, the grave of Second Lieutenant I.D. Marks was located at a point about 2,000 yards south of Pozieres, North East of Albert and his remains have been re-interred Gordon Dump Cemetery, Sausage Valley, Ovillers-la-Boiselle, North-East of Albert. The new grave has been duly marked and registered. The re-burial has been carefully and reverently carried out”.
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