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.