Monday 1st September 1919

Cpl. Arthur Lee MM (see 20^th July), serving in England with 1^st Battalion Yorks. and Lancs., was severely reprimanded having been reported for, ‘Refusing to obey an order given by an NCO and refusing to take over the duties of Company Orderly Sergeant’.

Payment of a £4 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Frederick Douglas Wood (see 13^th February 1917) who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his father, Fred.

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Sunday 31st August 1919

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

Saturday 30th August 1919

Ptes. Hubert Crabtree (see 25^th February) and William Mottershead (see 12^th August), serving in France with 13DWR, was posted to England for demobilization.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 16^th August), who had been under treatment at 3^rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth for the wounds he had suffered in October 1918, was granted one months’ leave, on the expiry of which he was to return to hospital.

Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO

Pte. Harold Walker Bray (see 26^th October 1918), who had been wounded in October 1918 while serving in France with 1^st/7^th DWR, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was assessed as having suffered a 40% disability and was awarded an Army pension of £1 7s. 10d. per week, to be reviewed after one year.

Pte. William Brooke (see 11^th August 1917), who had been wounded for a second time in August 1917, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds. He would be assessed as having suffered a 40% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 16s. per week, to be reviewed after three months.

Pte. Herbert Wood (see 20^th November 1918), who had been wounded in April 1918, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was assessed as having suffered a 1% disability and was awarded a £30 gratuity, but no pension.

Friday 29th August 1919

A/Sgt. Fred Greenwood MM (24522) (see 11^th August) was discharged from 38^th Stationary Hospital at Arquata Scrivia and re-joined 505^th Prisoner of War Company at San Bonifacio.

Thursday 28th August 1919

Pte. Clarence Smith (see 23^rd July), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, was admitted to hospital (cause unknown); he would be discharged to duty after seven days.

Pte. Edward Henry Chant (see 24^th May), who had been attached to 169^th Company, Royal Defence Corps, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Pte. William Settle (see 17^th December 1918) MM, serving with the Machine Gun Corps, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z; he had previously served with 10DWR and the date and circumstances of his transfer to the Machine Gun Corps are unknown.

Payment of a £4 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Hildred Woodhouse (see 14^th February 1916), who had been killed when a dugout had collapsed in November 1915; the payment would go to his father, Arthur.

Wednesday 27th August 1919

L.Cpl. John Jackson (19555) (see 2^nd August), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, was reported for ‘absenting himself from duty from 9.30 until 10.30’; he would be ordered to be confined to barracks for seven days.

Pte. Morville Dennis Smith (see 30^th October 1914), who had been serving with the RAMC having been discharged from 10DWR as medically unfit in October 1914, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Tuesday 26th August 1919

Pte. James Austin (see 15^th July), serving with 1034 Employment Company at Arquata Scrivia, was posted to England for demobilization.

L.Cpl. Herman Tutty (see 6^th May), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, began to be paid according to his rank, having previously held the post unpaid.

Pte. Joseph Hartley (see 8^th August) re-joined 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume after spending 18 days in hospital.

The remainder of an 18-month sentence, which had been imposed on Pte. William Baxter (see 31^st May), serving in France with 6^th Prisoner of War Company, Labour Corps, was formally remitted.

Pte. Ambrose Birdsall (see 22^nd July), who been serving in France with 2/4^th DWR, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class Z.

Payment of a £6 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Joseph Allen (see 9^th March), who had been killed in action in March 1916; the payment would go to his father, James.

A payment of £14 7s. 8d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances, including a war gratuity of £12 10s., to the late Pte. Walter William Ford (see 19^th August) who had died from influenza in February; the payment would go to his widow, Florence.

Payment of a £4 war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Matthew Teasdale (see 12^th June 1916), who had been killed in action in April 1916; the payment would go to his widow, Elizabeth.

A package of personal effects belonging to the late Pte. Edwin Kenyon (see 22^nd February), who had been killed during a trench raid exactly a year previously, was despatched to his widow; the parcel comprised of “wallet, cigarette case, letters, cards, 1d. holed, 2 religious books”. The reason for the delayed despatch of the items is unknown.

Pte. Edwin Kenyon