Pte. John Henshall (see 26th February), who had been serving with 2DWR and had been under treatment at the Military Hospital in Ripon since February, appeared before an Army Medical Board. The Board reported regarding the wounds he had suffered to his left leg in July 1916; ‘Good movement of knee; no wasting to muscles. Two small, nearly healed scars (has three needles left in a bone deep in; other two removed as they formed an abscess)’. The Board recommended that he be discharged as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was regarded as having suffered a less than 20% disability and was awarded an Army pension (amount unknown) to be reviewed after six months.
A pension award was made in the case of Ernest Fozard (see 3rd April 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z a year previously; he was now assessed as having suffered a 20% disability as a result of wounds to his left thigh (date and details unknown) and was awarded 8s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.
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