Thursday 1st April 1920

A number of men who had served as officers with 10DWR formally relinquished their commissions; they were Lts. Fred Baume (see 3^rd April 1919) (he was granted the rank of Captain, having held an Acting Captaincy during the war), Leopold Henry Burrow (see 20^th October 1919), Ernest Cyril Coke (see 1^st April 1919) (he was granted the rank of Captain, having held an Acting Captaincy during the war), Ronald Ferguson (see 22^nd July 1919), Philip Howard Morris (see 21^st January 1919), John Redington (see 21^st January 1919), and Thomas Arnold Woodcock (see 30^th January 1919).

Wednesday 31st March 1920

The Army Reserve Class Z, which had been authorised in December 1918 as a means of retaining a reserve of demobilized men who could be swiftly recalled in the event of a resumption of hostilities, was abolished. As a result more than 1,100 men who had served with 10DWR were finally and formally discharged from the Army.

A number of men who had been serving with the Royal Munster Fusiliers were also recorded as having been ‘discharged on demobilization’; these included Cpl. Lawrence William Hinchcliffe (see 25^th April 1919) and Ptes. George Edmund Hockley (see 25^th April 1919), Will Lee (see 25^th April 1919), Albert Leeson (see 25^th April 1919), Adam Shore (see 25^th April 1919), Samuel Slone (see 25^th April 1919), George William Tombs (see 25^th April 1919) and Arthur J. Webb (see 25^th April 1919).

Tuesday 30th March 1920

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

Monday 29th March 1920

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 17^th March), who was on leave having been under treatment at 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, on account of wounds he had suffered in October 1918, appeared before an Army Medical Board assembled at York; the Board granted him a further one month extension of his current leave.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

Sunday 28th March 1920

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

Saturday 27th March 1920

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

Friday 26th March 1920

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

Thursday 25th March 1920

George Oversby (see 18^th February), who had been discharged from the Army in February 1919, was re-examined by an Army Medical Board; the Board found that his disability was less than 20% and awarded him a gratuity payment of £84 in lieu of any further pension payments.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. John Richard Newell (see 12^th February 1919), who had died from influenza on 8^th August 1918; the payment would go to his widow, Caroline.

Wednesday 24th March 1920

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

Tuesday 23rd March 1920

Elizabeth Westle, mother of the late Pte. Edward Westle (see 9^th January), who had died of wounds in September 1917, died, aged 54. Her daughter, Agnes, would apply for a continuation of the pension payments which had been awarded to her mother in respect of Edward and his brother, George, who had also been killed, but her application would be rejected.

Monday 22nd March 1920

Pte. Harry Clarke (15251) (see 6^th March 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z a year previously, having been deemed to have suffered a 20% disability on account of ‘valvular disease of the heart’, attributable to his military service, was awarded a one-off gratuity payment of £5.

Sunday 21st March 1920

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

Saturday 20th March 1920

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

Friday 19th March 1920

A number of former officers of 10DWR attended a reunion dinner held at Oddenino’s Imperial Restaurant, Regent Street, London. A dinner card, preserved among the correspondence of Capt. Robert Stewart Skinner Ingram (see 25^th August 1919), bears the signatures of 16 officers, of which 14 of the signatures are recognizable. In addition to Capt. Ingram himself, the menu card was signed by Capt. Leonard Norman Phillips MC (see 9^th December 1919), Lt. Cyril William Wildy (see 10^th February 1919), Maj. William Norman Town (see 5^th June 1919), Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 5^th June 1919), Maj. James Christopher Bull MC (see 2^nd February 1919), Capt. James Watson Paterson (see 2^nd February 1919), Capt. Stanley Currington MBE (see 3^rd June 1919), Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 8^th March), Capt. Alfred Percy Harrison MC (see 14^th March 1919), 2Lt. Keith Sagar Bain MC (see 21^st May 1919), 2Lt. Albert Joseph Acarnley MC (see 15^th March 1919), Lt. Arthur Poynder Garratt (see 5^th January 1919) and Lt. Daniel William Paris Foster (see 19^th February 1919).

The pension award which had been made to John Dennis Moss (see 14^th December 1918), who had been discharged from the Army on account of wounds, was reviewed and increased from 13s. 9d. per week to 16s.

Thursday 18th March 1920

A payment of £11 10s. from the outstanding pay and allowances (£8 10s.) and war gratuity (£26) due in respect of the late Sgt. James Robinson (see 3^rd May 1919), was authorised; the payment would go to his widow, Annie. The balance (of £23) would, in due course, be invested in National Savings Certificates for their son, Leslie.

Wednesday 17th March 1920

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 25^th February), who was on leave having been under treatment at 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, on account of wounds he had suffered in October 1918, was awarded £4 4s. as ‘refund for the cost of an artificial eye’.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

Cpl. Frank Revell (see 22^nd February 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z a year previously, appeared before an Army Medical Board. He was found to be suffering from rheumatism, which had been aggravated by his military service; he was awarded an Army pension of 14s. 7d. per week.

The pension award which had been made to Sgt. Fred Metcalfe (13032) (see 20^th September 1917), who had been discharged from the Army a year previously on account of wounds, was reviewed and reduced to 17s. 9d. per week, to be reviewed after a year.

The pension award which had been made to Pte. Michael Bowen (see 16^th March 1919), who had been discharged from the Army a year previously on account of wounds, was reviewed and increased from 8s. 3d. per week to 12s.

Payment of a £22 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. L.Cpl. Walter Maynard Willis (see 5^th June 1919), who had died in August 1918 at the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Menston having been discharged from the Army; the payment would go to his widow, Jeannie.

Tuesday 16th March 1920

An Army Medical Board in Liverpool reviewed the case of Pte. John Parkinson (see 6^th April 1919), who been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z a year previously, having had a finger amputated after being wounded in June 1918. The Board found that, ‘scar of amputation is adherent; soundly healed; grip fair; herat and lungs normal’; his Army pension was increased to 8s. per week.

Payment of a £21 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Edward Percy Webb MM (see 9^th July 1919), who had been presumed killed in action on 26^th August 1918, the payment would go to his mother, Mary. No payment was made of Pte. Webb’s pay and allowances as there had been a debit balance of £2 3s. 3d. at the time of his death.

Monday 15th March 1920

Pte. Harold Fearnley 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 service beyond the fact that he had originally been posted to 8DWR before being transferred to 10DWR.

Sunday 14th March 1920

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

Saturday 13th March 1920

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

Friday 12th March 1920

A payment of £34 9s. 4d, comprising of £19 9s. 4d. due from pay and allowances and a £15 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. James Scott (18676) (see 26^th August 1918). who had been killed in action in August 1918; the payment would go to his father, James.

Thursday 11th March 1920

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

Wednesday 10th March 1920

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

Tuesday 9th March 1920

Eastwood Wilkinson (see 30^th August 1918), who had been discharged from the Army due to wounds in November 1917, appeared before a further Medical Board in connection with his Army pension; the Board reported that, “Complains of weakness in right hand; little finger has been amputated at media-carpal phalangeal joint. Stump well healed; slightly tender; grip good”. His level of disability was reassessed as being less than 20% and likely to last less than 12 months; he was accordingly allowed a final gratuity payment of £27 10s. in lieu of any further pension payments.

Monday 8th March 1920

Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 25^th February) assumed duties as Assistant British Commissioner to the Klagenfurt Plebiscite Commission.

Maj. Edward Borrow, DSO.

A revision was made in respect of the payment of pay and allowances and war gratuity which had been made to the family of the late Pte. John William Berry (see 2^nd January), who had died of wounds in November 1918; the quarter share which had originally been paid to his brother, Joseph, was now reallocated to “A. Wood, esq., a/collector to guardians”.

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Frederick William Jesson (see 5^th June 1917), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his sister, Annie, their mother, Sarah, having died in the Spring of 1918.

Sunday 7th March 1920

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

Saturday 6th March 1920

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

Friday 5th March 1920

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

Thursday 4th March 1920

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

Wednesday 3rd March 1920

Pte. John Thomas Mason (see 26^th January) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service; he was assessed as having suffered a 40% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 16s. per week.

A review of the pension award to Patrick Larvin (see 1^st September 1916), who had been severely wounded in May 1916 and had been discharged from the Army, reduced the level of his assessed disability from 100% to 20% and consequently reduced the amount of his weekly pension to 8s.

Tuesday 2nd March 1920

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

Monday 1st March 1920

Sgt. Joseph Patrick Melvin (see 22^nd September 1919), who had been serving at the Dispersal Centre at Ripon, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z. He was awarded an Army pension having been assessed as suffering a 20% disability on account of a sprained ankle suffered whilst in service; he was awarded 14s. per week.

A review of the pension award in the case of Andrew Green (see 14^th March 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve in March 1919, set his assessed level of disability at 30% (details unknown) and his pension at 12s. per week.

Payment of a £9 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Harry Clay (see 13^th February 1919), who had been killed in action on 26^th August 1918 while serving in France with 9DWR; the payment would go to his mother, Mary.