Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 22nd
April), who was on leave having been under treatment at 3rd
London General Hospital, Wandsworth, on account of wounds he had suffered in
October 1918, wrote (from his home address at Claremont House, Knaresborough) to
The War Office regarding the recent decision that he was to relinquish his
commission:
“On the 16th I received
from the Assistant Military Secretary, Northern Command, War Office letter
saying it had been decided to gazette me as relinquishing my commission. I am a
patient in Queen Alexandra’s Military Hospital, Millbank, and, up to yesterday,
was on leave for the purpose of receiving 13 weekly inocluations of autogenous
serum which could be administered here to me at less expense to both the State
and myself than if I had remained in hospital. I have not been discharged from
hospital and the Medical Officers who recommended me this leave did so on the
understanding that I was to return for further treatment at the end of it. This
treatment will probably consist of an operation to my nose and a further
plastic operation to my socket. I immediately wrote to the Assistant Military
Secretary, Northern Command, pointing out these facts and requesting
information, but have received no reply to my letter, nor to a reminder sent to
him on the 22nd. A similar letter sent to the Ministry of Pensions,
Yorkshire Region, on 20th has also received no reply. If, as I
think, the relinquishing of commission is an error, I should now be back in
hospital. I have, however, received no confirmation from the War Office of the
month’s leave granted me by the Medical Board at York on 29th March
and no order or warrant to return to hospital. The former I need to claim the
allowances to which I am entitled. I shall be much obliged if you will explain
the position to me’.
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| Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO |
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