Sunday 1st February 1920

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Saturday 31st January 1920

Cpl. John Dalby (see 29^th December 1919), who had been serving in England since having been wounded in September 1918, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of the wounds he had suffered in September 1918; he was assessed as having suffered a 40% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 17s. 4d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Friday 30th January 1920

Following a review by an Army Medical Board, Pte. John Mooring (see 5^th August 1919) was awarded a gratuity of £53 15s., in lieu of any further pension payments.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Leonard Le Lacheur (see 27^th February 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Ada.

Thursday 29th January 1920

Having spent the previous two weeks in detention following a charge of drunkenness, Pte. Herbert Jacklin (see 17^th January), who was serving at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia, was tried by Field General Court Martial; he was found guilty and ordered to undergo 14 days’ Field Punishment no.2 and to be deprived of seven days’ pay.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Arthur Milner (see 26^th June 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Richard.

Payment of a £9 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Mark Whitelock (see 13^th February 1917), who had died of wounds in August 1916; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah Ann, who had re-married and was now Mrs. Leach.

A pension award was authorised respect of the late Pte. James Frainey (see 15^th September 1919), who had been killed in action in March 1916; his father, Michael, was awarded 8s. per week.

Wednesday 28th January 1920

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Tuesday 27th January 1920

Following an appeal to the authotities, Pte. Michael Hopkins MM (see 2^nd March 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in March 1919, was awarded an Army pension; he was assessed as having suffered a 20% disability on account of the wounds he had suffered and was awarded 8s. 8d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Payment of a £7 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Ernest Frederick Warner (see 16^th April 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary Ann.

Monday 26th January 1920

Pte. Charles Clear (see 28^th November 1919), serving with the 2^nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment at Kirkee Barracks, Colchester, was reported for ‘not complying with Company orders; ie leaving the keys of the rifle rack in the lock’; he would be confined to barracks for four days.

Pte. John Thomas Mason (see 17^th January), who had been be admitted to 1^st London General Hospital following evacuation from hospital in Malta, was discharged from hospital and granted one month’s leave.

Mrs. Isabel Selby Smith wrote to The War Office regarding her late son 2Lt. John Selby Armstrong Smith (see 3^rd November 1919), who had previously served with 10DWR, but had been reported wounded and missing in action in April 1917 while serving with 9DWR; “I have been informed by the Army Council that I must apply to your Department for particluars of my son’s estate … I shall be glad if you will let me have particulars as soon as possible”.

Payment of an £8 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Thomas Robinson Barwick (see 30^th April 1917), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his widowed mother, Mary Ann. She was also in receipt of an Army pension of 8s. 6d. per week.

Sunday 25th January 1920

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Saturday 24th January 1920

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Friday 23rd January 1920

Payment of a £15 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Sgt. Charles Smith (11791) (see 14^th December 1917), who had died of wounds in June 1917; £5 8s. 6d. would go to his widow, Elizabeth, with the balance (£10 1s. 6d.) being invested in 13 National Savings Certificates, each of 15s. 6d.

Thursday 22nd January 1920

A further payment of £1 13s. 8d. was authorised, being the residual amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. George Berthelemy (see 8^th December 1919), who had died of wounds in June 1917; the payment would go to his brother, John, the initial payment having been made to his mother, Maria, in October 1917.

Wednesday 21st January 1920

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Tuesday 20th January 1920

Pte. Robert Wilson Irving (see 10^th December 1917), who had been formally discharged from the Army two years previously as no longer physically fit for service, following his episodes of shellshock, appealed for an Army pension. An examination by a Medical Board found that, “He states sleep delayed; cannot sleep until it is nearly time to go to work; quite well otherwise. Fine tremor hands and tongue; teeth defective and deficient; pupils normal; physique and nutrition good”. The Board concluded that he had suffered no disability and therefore ineligible for a pension; he was “recommended for outdoor employment; he would be better working”.

Monday 19th January 1920

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 19^th November 1919), who had been on leave having been under treatment at 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth returned to hospital.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

A/Sgt. Nathaniel Bather (see 12^th December 1919) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Sunday 18th January 1920

Pte. John Bayliss (see 30^th November 1919) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Saturday 17th January 1920

Pte. Herbert Jacklin (see 4^th December 1919), who was attached to the Corps of Military Police at the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia, was arrested on a charge of drunkenness; he would be detained pending an appearance before a Field General Court Martial and his attachment to the Military Police was cancelled with immediate effect.

Pte. John Thomas Mason (see 24^th September 1919), who had suffered severe injuries in an accident in September 1919 while serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. in Malta, was evacuated to England; on arrival he would be admitted to 1^st London General Hospital.

Pte. Ernest Mudd (see 2^nd September 1919), who had been serving at the Regimental Depot in Halifax, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Friday 16th January 1920

Ptes. Arthur Hodgson (see 21^st November 1919), Henry Holroyd (see 21^st November 1919), John Roebuck (see 21^st November 1919) and Lewis Walton (see 21^st November 1919), who had been serving with 1DWR in India, were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. Pte. Hodgson would be assessed as having suffered a 20% disability on account of malaria attributable to his service and would be awarded an Army pension of 8s. per week.

Thursday 15th January 1920

Payment of a £14 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Cpl. Joseph Rawnsley (see 16^th March 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah.

Wednesday 14th January 1920

Pte. Thomas Edward Laycock MM (see 9^th March 1919), who had been transferred to Class Z in March 1919, was awarded an Army pension having been assessed as having suffered a 20% disability due to wounds; he was awarded 8s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Tom Close Naylor (see 24^th December 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; his widow, Harriet, having died late in 1918, the payment would go to his late widow’s sister, Mrs. Emily Montgomery.

Tuesday 13th January 1920

Payment of a £10 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John William Henry Bower Clark (see 26^th January 1918), who had been killed in action while serving in France with 8DWR in December 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Annie.

Monday 12th January 1920

Pte. Matthew Stone MM (see 29^th March 1919), who had been transferred to Class Z in February 1920, was awarded an Army pension on the basis of having suffered a 20% disability on account of wounds and otitis media, attributable to his service; he was awarded 15s. 1d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

The Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries wrote to the Rev. F. Hart, who was the father of the late 2Lt. Charles Crowther Hart (see 15^th November 1917), who had been killed in action in November 1917 while serving with 3/3^rd Battalion, King’s African Rifles in East Africa and had been buried locally close to Massassi, in what is now Malawi. Rev. Hart was informed that, “It has been found necessary to exhume the bodies buried in certain areas and to re-inter them in cemeteries, and the body of the late Lt. C.C. Hart, attached King’s African Rifles, has accordingly been removed from Mwiti and has been buried in Massassi Cemetery, East Africa. The grave has been duly marked and registered in this office. The re-burial has been carefully and reverently carried out”.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Thomas Ward (see 22^nd August), who had accidentally drowned whilst bathing in August 1917; the payment would go to his father, Thomas.

Having received correspondence regarding the late Pte. Edwin Charles Church (see 29^th March 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917, Mrs. Annie D’Arcy wrote to the Infantry Records Office; she was the sister-in-law of Pte. Church. “I am unable to fill up form of relatives of the late E.C. Church. He was the husband of my sister, who is also dead, and I have got one of her children and the other child is being brought up by the husband’s people. Mr. Church snr. lives at 38 Crescent Lane, Clapham Park, London, SW. He will be able to give you all the information concerning the family. Although related by marriage I am almost a stranger to them. I know that E.C. Church had a father and three sisters, but I do not know any of their names. I hope I have made myself clear”.

Sunday 11th January 1920

Pte. George Jones again wrote to the Dukes’ Regimental Depot in Halifax regarding his brother, 2Lt. William Jones MM (see 23^rd December 1919); he had received the Princess Mary gift as detailed in his earlier correspondence but had given no news as to the fate of his brother, whom he assumed (wrongly in fact) had been killed, and now asked again for information.

Saturday 10th January 1920

Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 5^th April 1919) formally relinquished his commission ‘on completion of service’.

Maj. Edward Borrow DSO

A payment of £28 11s. 7d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war grant of £16) to the late Pte. Bramwell Thompson (see 3^rd July 1919), who had been officially reported ‘missing in action’ in action in October 1918; the payment would go to his mother, Sarah.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Thomas Tibble (see 18^th May 1918), who had died from lobar pneumonia in January 1918; the payment would go to his father, Thomas.

Friday 9th January 1920

Payment of a £5 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Herbert Butterworth (see 30^th August 1918), who had been killed in action in November 1917 while serving with 2/6^thDWR; the payment would go to his father, Henry.

Payment of a £5 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Edward Westle (see 16^th January 1918), who had died of wounds in September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Elizabeth.

Thursday 8th January 1920

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Holden (12384) (see 17^th February 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his widow, Margaret Ann.

Wednesday 7th January 1920

Pte. Ernest Jones (see 17^th June), who had been in England since having been wounded 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 70% disability and was awarded an Army pension of £1 8s. per week.

Payment of an £11 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late 2Lt. George Patrick Doggett (see 4^th July 1917), who had died of wounds in July 1917; the payment would go to his father, George Henry.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. James Herbert Armstrong (see 24^th April 1918) who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his mother and father, Mary and James, as joint legatees.

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. James Tunnicliffe (see 23^rd March 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, James.

Tuesday 6th January 1920

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Monday 5th January 1920

2Lt. Edwin Everingham Ison (see 25^th October 1918) was formally released from the Army; he had most recently been serving with 517^th Prisoner of War Company.

2Lt. Edward Everingham Ison 

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Payment of an £8 10s war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Robert William Bell (see 16^th November 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Margaret. The pension awards in his case were somewhat complicated; not only was a pension payable to his mother, but payments were also authorised to Mrs. Myra Charlesworth of Bransley, ‘unofficial wife’ and to Mrs. Clarissa Bradley of Settle, ‘guardian of illegitimate child’.

Pte. Robert William Bell

Sunday 4th January 1920

There is nothing to report regarding the officers and men of 10DWR.

Saturday 3rd January 1920

Payment of a £15 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Frederick Fielden (see 13^th May 1919), who had died of wounds on 6^th September 1918; the payment would go to his sister, Elizabeth, Pte. Fielden having dictated a new will shortly before his death, removing all reference to his wife, who had since re-married.

Friday 2nd January 1920

A/Sgt. Fred Greenwood MM (24522) (see 22^nd November 1919), Cpl. Arthur William Stobart (see 22^nd November), and Pte. Thomas Henry Cox (25806) (see 19^th November 1919) were formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. John William Parker (13991) (see 13^th April 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his widow, Ann.

Image by kind permission of Andy Wade and MenOfWorth

A payment of £53 2s. 1d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war grant of £24) in respect of the late Pte. John William Berry (see 1^st November 1918), who had died of wounds in November 1918; the payment would be divided in four equal shares between his mother, Mary Ann; his sister, Amelia; his married sister, Mrs. Annie Phillips, and his brother, Joseph. His mother was also in receipt of an Army pension (amount and details unknown) having lost two sons.

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Mitchell (see 8^th May 1917), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his father, Ernest.

Pte. William Mitchell