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.