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I have now "seen the light" about how this has been designed, amended the outbound mqtt message from the controller to request ACK:
and this is working and sending back an echo message:

mygateway1-in/100/2/1/1/3 100
mygateway1-out/100/2/1/1/3 100

So I can now build a rule round this in openhab to handle errors. I suppose I should have thought this through before pestering the forum but then again that is what it's for! Thanks again.

@mfalkvidd thank you for this helpful response. I will respond once I get a chance to have a look at this properly again.