Sunday 1st August 1920

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

Saturday 31st July 1920

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

Friday 30th July 1920

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

Thursday 29th July 1920

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

Wednesday 28th July 1920

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

Tuesday 27th July 1920

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

Monday 26th July 1920

A review of the pension award to Patrick Larvin (see 3^rd March), who had been severely wounded in May 1916 and had been discharged from the Army, reduced the level of his assessed disability to 1% and, in lieu of further pension payments, he was awarded a gratuity payment of £27 10s.

Lt. Thomas Arnold Woodcock (see 1^st April) was appointed to a post (details unknown) in the Colonial Office.

Sunday 25th July 1920

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

Saturday 24th July 1920

Matthew Woodward (see 21^st October 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in February 1920, was married to Evelyn Charlotte Greenwood; they were married at St. John’s Church, Hammersmith.

The Directorate of Graves Registration wrote to the Infantry Records Office in York requesting details of the burial place of the late Pte. Joseph Clayton (see 1^st November 1919), who had died in November 1917 whilst serving with 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion at Gateshead. The Office accordingly wrote to Nuns Lane School Hospital, where Pte. Clayton had died, requesting details.

Friday 23rd July 1920

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

Thursday 22nd July 1920

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

Wednesday 21st July 1920

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

Tuesday 20th July 1920

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

Monday 19th July 1920

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

Sunday 18th July 1920

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

Saturday 17th July 1920

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Richard Spencer Howard (see 17^th January 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his married sister, Emma Forestal, who was described as his ‘sole legatee’ despite the fact that his widow, Martha, was still alive.

Pte. Richard Spencer Howard

Thursday 15th July 1920

A review of the pension award made in respect of the late Pte. Fred Benson (see 7^th October 1919), who had been killed in action in July 1916, led to the pension payable to his mother, Ann, being increased to 14s. per week.

Pte. Fred Benson

A review of the pension award made in respect of the late Pte. James Jackson (see 16^th October 1919), who had been killed in action in September 1917, led to the pension payable to his widow, Rachel, being increased to £2 16s. per week.

Wednesday 14th July 1920

A review of the pension award made to Frank Shelah Gilleard MC (see 11^th March 1919), who had been discharged from the Army in February 1919, led to his pension being reduced to 10s. 8d. per week, on the grounds that his degree of disability was reassessed as being 20% rather than 30%.

A payment of £26 8s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war gratuity of £24) to the late Cpl. Reginald Robinson (see 26^th August 1918), who had been killed in action in August 1918; the payment would go to his mother, Ruth.

A review of the pension award made in repect of the late Cpl. Thomas Arthur Sturdy (see 26^th February 1919), who had died in February 1919, led to the pension payable to his widow, Annie Elizabeth, being increased to £2 2s. 9d. per week.

Tuesday 13th July 1920

A review of the pension award made in respect of Edward Hunter (see 5^th September 1916), who had been discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service in action in September 1916, led to his assessed degree of disability being registered as 100% and his weekly pension set at £2 6s. 8d. per week.

A review of the pension award made in respect of the late L.Cpl. James Gordge (see 17^th September 1919), who had been killed in action in July 1916, led to the pension payable to his widow, Mary Ann, being increased to £2 4s. 3d. per week.

Monday 12th July 1920

It was confirmed that a sum of £23 outstanding from the pay and allowances and war gratuity due in respect of the late Sgt. James Robinson (see 18^th March), had been invested in National Savings Certificates for his son, Leslie.

Sunday 11th July 1920

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

Saturday 10th July 1920

Payment of a £13 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late 2Lt. Roland Herbert Wyndham Brinsley-Richards (see 11^th August 1917), who had been killed in action in July 1916.

2Lt. Roland Herbert Wyndham Brinsley-Richards

Friday 9th July 1920

Sydney Hoar (see 18^th April), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in April and had recently been in trouble with the police at home, travelled to Canada onboard the SS Empress of France. He travelled with his father, John, but without his wife and two young sons. They stated that they were travelling on holiday and would be staying with a cousin, Frank Sandall, who lived in Trehern, Manitoba. John would return to England in September, but there is no indication that Sydney returned.

Thursday 8th July 1920

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

Wednesday 7th July 1920

A review of the pension award made to William Hartley (see 2^nd August 1918), who had been discharged from the Army in August 1918, led to his level of assessed disability being reduced to 20% and his pension to 7s. 10d. per week.

The balance of £12 from the war gratuity payable in respect of the late Pte. Alfred Baker (see 6^th April), who had died, apparently of heart failure, in July 1918, was authorised for payment to his daughter, Nellie.

Eleanor Birch, mother of the late L.Cpl. Christopher Smith Birch (see 5^th December 1919), who had been killed in action in October 1917, died.

Tuesday 6th July 1920

A review of the pension award made to Patrick Conley (see 13^th August 1919), who had been discharged from the Army in March, led to his pension being reduced to 13s. 11d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Monday 5th July 1920

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

Sunday 4th July 1920

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

Saturday 3rd July 1920

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

Friday 2nd July 1920

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