Tuesday 1st June 1920

Pte. Charles Clear (see 26^th January), serving with the 2^nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of sickness contracted whilst in service (details unclear); he was awarded an Army pension of 16s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

A review of the pension award made to Ernest Wilson (28985) (see 20^th June 1918), who had been discharged from the Army in June 1918, led to his pension being reduced to 10s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Monday 31st May 1920

Fred Atkinson (see 2^nd March 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in March 1919, wrote to the Infantry Records Office in York, “As I find myself unable to follow my employment  and am not in receipt of any pension I have been instructed to apply to you for A.F. Z 22. I understand that this will enable me to have an examination before a medical officer and, as my circumstances are very straitened and daily growing worse, I trust that you will oblige me at your earliest convenience”. The outcome of his request is unknown.

Sunday 30th May 1920

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

Saturday 29th May 1920

In reply to recent confirmation from the War Office that he was to be regarded as having ‘relinquished his commission on grounds of ill-health caused by wounds’, Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 26^th May) again wrote, “I am under the impression that a wounded officer in hospital cannot be gazetted as relinquishing his commission until discharged from hospital. As I was expected to return to Millbank Hospital on 28^th and probably to undergo one or two more operations, I am not discharged and should, I think, be entitled to my rank and pay until such time as I am’. A note which would be made on Maj. Gill’s records at the War Office on 5^th June would confirm that the appeal was to be rejected and that the War Office decision would stand; this was to be communicated to Maj. Gill (details unknown).

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill

Friday 28th May 1920

A review of the pension award made to Fred Addy (see 27^th August 1917), who had been discharged from the Army in August 1917, led to his pension being increased to £1 per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Thursday 27th May 1920

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

Wednesday 26th May 1920

A review of the pension award made to Edward Somers (see 27^th May 1919), who had been discharged from the Army in May 1919, led to his pension being increased to 10s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 4^th May), who had been registered as having ‘relinquished his commission on grounds of ill-health caused by wounds’, despite having appealed to the War Office, again wrote regarding his situation; the War Office would reply confirming their decision.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

Tuesday 25th May 1920

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

Monday 24th May 1920

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

Sunday 23rd May 1920

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

Saturday 22nd May 1920

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

Friday 21st May 1920

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

Thursday 20th May 1920

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

Wednesday 19th May 1920

Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 19^th March) formally relinquished his commission ‘on completion of service’.

2Lt. Archibald (Archie) Allen (see 21^st July 1919), who been released from the Army having been wounded in June 1918, appeared before a further Army Medical Board assembled in Birmingham. The Board found that he “States that it is not so tender and movements are slightly improved. Liable to bad colds and gets easily tired. On examination there is considerable loss of muscle substance of left upper arm. Cannot elevate arm above a right angle. Scar is sound; slightly tender and grip is reduced 50%. Much loss of tissue of left side of chest. A rib has been removed. General physical condition poor. Weight 9st. 13lbs. Pale and delicate looking. Lungs normal. Heart normal”.

A further review of the pension award made to James Bentley Crosland (see 17^th April), who had been discharged from the Army in December 1917, led to his assessed degree of disability being reduced to 40% and his pension to 16s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Tuesday 18th May 1920

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

Monday 17th May 1920

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

Sunday 16th May 1920

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

Saturday 15th May 1920

In an accident which occurred close to the family home (Allwood Cottage, Langcliffe), two year-old George Thistlethwaite drowned in the dam adjoining the High Mill (the premises of Messrs. Hector Christie Ltd). George was the son of John William Thistlethwaite (see 23^rd July 1915), who had been one of Tunstill’s original recruits but had been discharged as unfit in the Summer of 1915. The boy had been named after John William’s brother, George Thistlethwaite (see 21^st November 1919), who had also originally joined Tunstill’s Company but had also been discharged, only to be called up in August 1917; he had died of wounds in February 1918. A subsequent report in the Craven Herald  (21^st May) gave an account of the accident and also of the inquest;

DROWNING FATALITY AT LANGCLIFFE - AUNT’S BRAVE ATTEMPT AT RESCUE

On Tuesday Mr. Edgar Wood (coroner) conducted an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of George Thistlethwaite, the two year old son of John William Thistlethwaite of Allwood Cottage, Langcliffe who was drowned on Saturday evening in the dam adjoining the High Mill (Messrs. Hector Christie Ltd).

John William Thistlethwaite, the father, gave evidence of identification and said that at 6.15 on Saturday evening he noticed his son playing by himself near the house. He did not know whether a gate which led to the bank of the dam was open or not. Whilst partaking of tea, however, he heard a scream, and on ascertaining the cause he found Mrs. Lily Pearcy, the deceased’s aunt, in the dam, making towards his son. The deceased was under the water and about 20 yards from the bank. He dived into the water and assisited Mrs. Pearcy to recover the child, who, however, showed no signs of life.

Previous Accidents

Lily Pearcy deposed that shortly before half past six on Saturday evening she went in search of the deceased but as she was unable to find him she proceeded to the dam, passing through the gate which was not often closed. On reaching the dam she saw something in the water but could not at first ascertain what it was. On looking again witness saw it was a child and consequently she went to the rescue, despite the fact that the water reached up to her arm pits. On reaching him witness found that her nephew was laid face downwards. With the assistance of deceased’s father the child was recovered. Witness added that her daughter had been to the dam on three occasions and that she also knew of another girl that had fallen in. Robert Yates of Langcliffe spoke of attempting artificial respiration but without obtaining any sign of life. His child, he said, had also been to the dam.

Dr. G. Watson of Settle said death was due to asphyxia, probably due to drowning. The Coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death and recommednded that the gate giving access to the footpath leading to the bank of the dam should be made to close and that the dam should be fenced up to the first stile.



Confirmation was received and registered at the Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries of the exhumation and reburial of the remains of a number of British soldiers from Rue-du-Bacquerot (Wangerie Post) New Military Cemetery, which was close to the hamlet of Wangerie, to the Royal Irish Rifles Graveyard, Laventie. These included four men from 10DWR who had been killed in November 1915; L.Cpl. Samuel Holroyd (see 9^th July 1919), and Ptes. James Bradley (11737) (see 12^th August 1919), Frederick Ford (see 9^th July 1919) and Hildred Woodhouse (see 28^th August 1919).

Friday 14th May 1920

A review of the pension award in respect of Billy Rawlinson (see 6^th July 1917), who had been discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds in July 1917) set his assessed degree of disability at 70% and his weekly pension at £1 10s. 4d..

Thursday 13th May 1920

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

Wednesday 12th May 1920

A review of the pension award which had been made to Henry Herbert Calvert (see 24^th July 1916), who had been discharged from the Army on account of shellshock, awarded him a weekly pension of £1 12s. 1d., on the basis of a 50% disability.

The pension award which had been made to John Dennis Moss (see 19^th March), who had been discharged from the Army on account of wounds, was reviewed and reduced from 16s. per week to 12s.

Tuesday 11th May 1920

Pte. Michael Cooney MM (see 2^nd July 1919), who had been serving with the Irish Guards, was formally discharged from the Army; he would be subsequently (October 1920) be assessed as having suffered a disability of less than 20% as a result of a gunshot wound to the arm and neurasthenia and would be awarded an Army pension of 5s. 6d. per week.

A review of the pension award made to Robert Sylvester Downey (see 14^th December 1918), who had been discharged from the Army in December 1918, led to his pension being increased to 16s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Michael Frainey, father of the late Pte. James Frainey (see 29^th January), who had been killed in action in March 1916, died.

Monday 10th May 1920

A payment of £21 15s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war gratuity of £16) to the late Pte. James Henry Quiller (see 24^th April 1919), who had been killed in action in October 1918; two thirds of the payment would be paid to his half-sister Elizabeth Smith and the remaining third to his brother Thomas.

Sunday 9th May 1920

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

Saturday 8th May 1920

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

Friday 7th May 1920

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

Thursday 6th May 1920

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

Wednesday 5th May 1920

A review of the pension award made to Herbert Burgess (see 4^th November 1918), who had been discharged from the Army in November 1918, led to his assessed pension being increased to 19s. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

A review of the pension award made to James Charles Eugene O’Callaghan (see 5^th May 1919), who had been discharged from the Army in December 1917, led to his assessed pension being increased to £1 per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Tuesday 4th May 1920

Despite his pending appeal to the War Office, Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 29^th April), 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 formally registered as having ‘relinquished his commission on grounds of ill-health caused by wounds’.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

Monday 3rd May 1920

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

Sunday 2nd May 1920

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