1st - 30th November 1920

1^st November 1920

Walter Evans (see 31^st January 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in January 1919, enlisted on a three year term in the 10^th Battalion Manchester Regiment (Territorial Force); he was then living in Oldham and working as a labourer.

 

2^nd November 1920

A review of the pension award in the case of John Killerby (see 27^th September 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z in September 1920, resulted in his assessed degree of disability being reduced to 30% and his pension being reduced to 12s. per week.

A review of the pension award in the case of William Sutcliffe Wood (see 11^th June 1917), who had been discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of dysentery in June 1917, resulted in his assessed degree of disability being set at 50% and his pension being increased to £1 per week.

 

5^th November 1920

John Thomas Nunnington (see 12^th February 1919), wh had been transferred to the Army Reserve in February 1919, wrote the Dukes’ Regimental Depot regarding his medal entitlement: “Will you kindly inform me when I shall receive my medals which I am due to. I met a young fellow in the street the other day who had been issued with his service medals for the European War”. He would be informed that the medals would be despatched to him ‘with as little delay as possible’.

9th November 1920

A review of the pension award in the case of Harry Hinchliffe (see 6^th June 1918), who had been discharged from the Army on account of wounds in June 1918, resulted in his pension being reduced to 12s. per week.

 

10^th November 1920

Matthew Best (see 15^th December 1917), who had been discharged from the Army in November 1917, was awarded a one-off gratuity payment of £90 in lieu of any further pension payments.

 

A further review was carried out of the pension award made in respect of the late Pte. Harry Towell (see 30^th October 1919), who had been killed in action on 5^th July 1916; the pension granted to his mother, Mary, was reduced from 10s. per week, to 7s. 6d..

 

12^th November 1920

2Lt. Edgar Leyland Mills Lumb (see 6^th January 1919) relinquished his commission ‘on completion of service’; on the same date he was appointed to a commission as Second Lieutenant with 6^th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Territorial Army).

 

13^th November 1920

A review of the pension award in the case of Cyril Hollingsworth (see 14^th December 1918), who had been discharged from the Army in December 1919, resulted in his assessed degree of disability being reduced to less than 20% and his pension being reduced to 5s. 6d. per week.

 

16^th November 1920

CSM Albert Blackburn DCM (see 3^rd June), who had been discharged from the Army in March, was awarded a one-off gratuity payment of £63 15s. in lieu of any further pension payments.

 

18^th November 1920

A payment of £18 14s. 8d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances (including a war gratuity of £15 10s.) to the late Cpl. John Kennedy MM (see 26^th August 1918), who had been killed in action in August 1918; the payment would go to his mother, Frances. The reason for such a protracted delay in settling Cpl. Kennedy’s account is unknown.

 

22^nd November 1920

An official report by the Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries confirmed that the remains of the late Pte. Harry Clay (see 2^nd March), who had been killed in action on 26^th August 1918 while serving in France with 9DWR, had been recovered and had been reinterred at Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont.

 

23^rd November 1920

A review of the pension award in the case of Thomas William Woodcock (see 29^th June 1916), who had been discharged from the Army in June 1916, resulted in the amount of his weekly pension being increased from 8s. to 12s.

George Richard Goodchild MSM (see 3^rd June 1919), who had been transferred to the Army Reserve in January 1919 , wrote to the Infantry Records Office in York: “I note that, according to a supplement to the London Gazette just issued, annuities are payable to men who have been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. I have received that award and should be obliged if you would be good enough to acquaint me with the conditions under which an annuity may be claimed”. The outcome of his enquiry is unknown.

 

24^th November 1920

A review of the pension award in the case of Harry Gordon Binns MM (see 30^th November 1918), who had been discharged from the Army in November 1918, resulted in his assessed degree of disability being revised to 30% and his pension being increased to 13s. per week.

 

26^th November 1920

The Pensions Officer at St. Dunstan’s Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Committee wrote to the Dukes’ Record Office on behalf of 2Lt. Billy Oldfield MM (see 13^th April 1919), who had been severely wounded and blinded in April 1918, requesting the issue of the 1915 Star medal to which he was entitled. In reply he was informed that, having been commissioned, 2Lt. Oldfield’s medal would be despatched direct from the War Office, rather than via the Regiment and, as such, any further enquiries should be directed to the War Office.

 

 

29^th November 1920

A review of the pension award made in respect of the late Pte. John Holden (12384) (see 8^th January) who had been killed in action in October 1916, resulted in the pension payable to his widow, Margaret Ann, being increased from £1 16s. 8d. to £2 1s. 10d. per week.

 

30^th November 1920

A pension award was authorised in respect of the late L.Cpl. Walter Blamires (see 22^nd September 1919), who had died of wounds in July 1916; his father, Joseph, was awarded 5s. per week.