Tuesday 9th December 1919

Pte. Harold Deighton (see 30^th May), who had been serving with 2DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

L.Cpl. John Jackson (19555) (see 21^st October) and Pte. William George Ruddock MM (see 20^th October) were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Payment of a £13 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Thomas Moyle MM (see 27^th July 1917), who had died of wounds in January 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Elizabeth.

Sgt. Thomas Moyle MM

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harold Clarkson (see 10^th September 1917) who had been killed in action in May 1917; the payment would go to his father, George.

Pte. Harold Clarkson

Image by kind permission of Edward Wild

Payment of a £10 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Frederick James Farthing (see 27^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Frederick.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Herbert Hirst (see 27^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Fred.

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Albert Edward Pope (see 11^th December 1917), who had died of wounds in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Clara.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Ernest Smith (29167) (see 13^th August 1918), who had been killed in action in April 1918 while serving with 5DWR; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.

Thomas Probert Perks, father of the late Capt. Bob Perks DSO (see 19^th July), who had been killed in action in October 1918, secured a grant of probate of his late son’s affairs, valued at £348 2s. 6d.


The London Gazette published notice of the awards of Bars to the Military Cross to Capt. Henry Kelly VC, MC (see 25^th March) and Capt. Leonard Norman Phillips MC (see 5^th April) and a first award to 2Lt. Sam Benjamin Farrant (see 19^th February) for their conduct on 27^th October 1918.