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Monday 18 May 2020

Wednesday 19th May 1920


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

2Lt. Archibald (Archie) Allen (see 21st 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 17th 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.

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