Sunday 29th February 1920

Pte. Charles Godfrey Kingdom was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was a 23 year-old textile worker from Holmfirth. He had only ever served with 10DWR but, in the absence of a surviving service record, I am unable to establish any details of his service.

Saturday 28th February 1920

A/Maj. John Atkinson (see 13^th October 1919), who had been released from the Army four months previously, wrote to the War Office regarding pay and allowances due to him; “It is with great great reluctance that I am compelled to write to you about my allowances. I was demobilized on October 13^th last and the last month for which I received my allowance was the May prior to that date. I can get no satisfaction from any paymaster and not even a reply from the Command Paymaster, Eastern Command, Kensington, London, although I have written four times, extending over a period of months. I joined the Cheshire Regiment at Ipswich from North Shields, where the West Riding Regiment was stationed, on December 13^th 1918 and went with them to the Army of Occupation in Germany. The Battalion was split up there and we became the 1^st/4^th Cheshire Regiment. From there I was transferred to Western Division HQ as Commandant, Reception Camp, with the temporary rasnk of Major. On August 25^th we returned to Rhyl, North Wales, for demobilization. During that period I sent in the usual claims for my allowances but, through some trouble in the Paymaster Department at Cologne, nothing happened. Now the point is how am I to claim these allowances? It is a matter of £50 or £60 which I require urgently. I have sunk all my gratuity in brick works, which are not bringing in any return at the moment and I relied upon this money to keep me during this period. I cannot afford to wait as I am a married man with five children and a wife who is continually in the doctor’s hands.

I might point out that I joined the Army in August 1914 – leaving my job and wasting the best years of my life. I might also point out that I only joined the Army of Occupation on the understanding that I got my majority (hence a bigger gratuity on demobilization) and, although I did the work of second-in-command of my Battalion for several months, and was repeatedly promised the rank of Major, I still remained a Captain when I went to Germany and was brought to Germany under false pretences.

Will you kindly interest yourself on my behalf.”

Friday 27th February 1920

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

Thursday 26th February 1920

Pte. John Henshall (see 13^th November 1919), serving with 2DWR, was admitted to hospital (details unknown) suffering from a recurrence of problems arising from the leg wounds he had suffered in July 1916; after two days he would be transferred to the Military Hospital in Ripon.

Wednesday 25th February 1920

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 5^th February), who was under treatment at 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, on account of wounds he had suffered in October 1918, was granted one month’s leave, on the expiry of which he was to return to hospital. The course of 13 ‘weekly inoculations of autogenous serum’ which he had begun three weeks previously was to be continued whilst he was at home in Knaresborough on the grounds that the injections ‘could be administered to me here at less expense to both the State and myself than had I remained in hospital’.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

Officials at the Foreign Office, writing on behalf of Earl Curzon, wrote to the Army Council, regarding Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 10^th January),

“With reference to Foreign Office letter 178852 of the 19^th instant regarding the Klagenfurt Plebiscite Commission, I am directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston to state that Major Edward Borrow has accepted the appointment of Assistant British Commissioner. Lord Curzon considers it very desirable that Major Borrow should be re-mobilized in order that he, as well as Colonel Peck and the other military officers serving in the Commission, should be able to wear British military uniform during the taking of the plebiscite. In view of the unsettled conditions of the country and the additional prestige which this outward sign of their nationality and rank will confer on the officers in question in that area, I am to ask that, subject to the concurrence of the Army Council, Major Borrow may be authorised so to do”.

Maj. Edward Borrow, DSO

Payment of a £3 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Thomas Henry Wood (see 12^th November 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Arthur.

Tuesday 24th February 1920

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

Monday 23rd February 1920

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

Sunday 22nd February 1920

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

Saturday 21st February 1920

A final payment, of £13, was made of the war gratuity due in respect of the late CSM James Davis MM (see 1^st December 1918), who had died of wounds in June 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Charlotte, who had re-married and was now Mrs. Charlotte Preskey.

CSM James Davis MM

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton.

Friday 20th February 1920

Cpl. William Foulds (see 10^th April 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in April 1919, appeared before an Army Medical Board which reviewed his case and found that he ‘complains of earache, right ear; scar from removal of glands below right ramus of jaw; no other enlarged glands’; they determined that he was suffering from no ongoing disability and was therefore ineligible for any further pension payments.

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the Pte. Joseph Fox (see 1^st May 1918), who had been killed in action in October 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.

Thursday 19th February 1920

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

Wednesday 18th February 1920

George Oversby (see 23^rd February 1919), who had been discharged from the Army in February 1919, was re-examined by an Army Medical Board. The Board reported that ‘He complains of stiffness in right index finger and aching left leg on much walking. Scar over posterior aspect 2^nd phalanx right index finger; healed; not tender; not adherent; some thickening of middle phalanx; some creaking; other fingers and thumb normal; grip good. Less than 20% disability. 2” vertical scar, inner side lower third left leg; healed; partially adherent; not tender; ankle movements normal. No disability’. His current pension award of 5s. 6d. per week was increased to 8s. per week for the next nine weeks, pending a further medical report.

Albert Moore (see 14^th December 1918), who had been discharged from the Army in December 1918, died at his home in Captain Street, Bradford, having suffered from chronic bronchitis and pulmonary TB. His brother and next of kin, Walter, would be awarded a pension payment amounting to £2 per week for the period from 1^st November 1919, when it was considered that Albert had become 100% disabled as a result of disease aggravated whilst in service, to the date of death.

Tuesday 17th February 1920

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

Monday 16th February 1920

Pte. Joseph Edward Core (see 23^rd May 1918) was released from the Army; having originally enlisted on a territorial engagement he was formally recorded as having been ‘disembodied’ rather than transferred to the Reserve or discharged.

CSM Edward George John Cooke (see 29^th April 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in April 1919, was re-examined by an Army Medical Board having made an appeal for a review of his case for a pension; the Board found that his condition was as previously reported and therefore he was ineligible for any pension. 

Sunday 15th February 1920

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

Saturday 14th February 1920

Payment of a £7 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harold Dale (see 24^th July 1918) who had been killed in action in April 1918; the payment would go to his brother, William, their mother, Mary, having died within the previous year.

Friday 13th February 1920

Payment of a £3 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Willie Burley (see 30^th November 1916) who had died of wounds in September 1915; the payment would go to his married sister, Elizabeth Louisa Chase.

Thursday 12th February 1920

Payment of a £10 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. James Heaton (see 24^th July 1917) who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, Sam.


A review was carried out in respect of the pension awarded to Agnes Sutcliffe, widow of the late Pte. Milton Sutcliffe (see 4^th June), who had been killed in action in October 1918; the weekly rate of pension payable was increased from £1 5d. per week to £1 16s. 8d. per week.

Wednesday 11th February 1920

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

Tuesday 10th February 1920

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

Monday 9th February 1920

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

Sunday 8th February 1920

Lt. Col. Lewis Ernest Buchanan (see 21^st May 1919) former 2IC of 10DWR, who had been serving in England since 1916, formally relinquished his commission; his address at the time was Sorrento Lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight.



Pte. William Berry (30667) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. In the absence of a surviving service record I am unable to make a positive identification of this man or to establish any details of his military service, beyond the fact that he had only ever served with 10DWR.

Saturday 7th February 1920

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

Friday 6th February 1920

Pte. Harry Hirst (29966) (see 23^rd May 1918) was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Thursday 5th February 1920

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 19^th January), who was under treatment at 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, on account of wounds he had suffered in October 1918, began a course of 13 ‘weekly injections’.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

Cpl. Harry Wood MM (see 12^th September), who had been in a variety of hospitals since having been wounded 18 months previously, was discharged from Nell Lane Military Hospital, West Didsbury, Manchester to the Military Convalescent Hospital in Ashton-in-Makerfield. A medical report prior to discharge recorded that, “All wounds healed; there can be no doubt that the lung was damaged by the bullet. Large scar on left shoulder and it is partially adherent. Can move shoulder well but there is some weakness. Leg has healed well; good bony union’. He would be discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was assessed as having suffered a 20% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 8s. 8d. per week.

An Army Medical Board reviewed the case of Pte. Frank Easterby (see 5^th March 1919), who had been discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds in March 1919; his degree of disability was reassessed and reduced from 50% to 30% and his Army pension reduced from 18s. 9d. per week to 17s. 3d., to be reviewed after six months.

A payment of a £24 9s. 4d, comprising of £9 9s. 4d. due from pay and allowances and a £15 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. William Hassall (see 24^th April 1919), who had been killed in action in October 1918; the payment would go to Miss Ethel May Popplewell, administrator of his estate.

Wednesday 4th February 1920

Payment of a £4 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Ellis (see 8^th January 1918) who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would be divided in equal shares of 12s. 10d. to his two brothers and five sisters.

Payment of a £7 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Michael Taylor (see 12^th October 1917), who had been killed in action in September 1917; the payment would go to his father, John.

Tuesday 3rd February 1920

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

Monday 2nd February 1920

Pte. George William Ball (see 22^nd November 1919), who had been serving at Arquata Scrivia with the Military Foot Police, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.