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