Thursday 17th September 1914

Tunstill held his penultimate recruitment meeting, in Slaidburn, at 7.30pm. No particular details are known, but four men seem to have taken the opportunity to volunteer.

• Edwin and Walter Isherwood; were brothers aged 18 and 16 respectively, and two of ten children of Thomas and Hannah Isherwood. The Isherwood family had been farming land at Foulscales, near Slaidburn, for many years and continued to do so after the death of Thomas in 1910, with five of his sons (including Edwin) still working the land (although Walter was working as a farm labourer near Clitheroe).
• Charles Edward Parker; was 21 years old and originally from Broadmayne, Dorset; he was working as a gamekeeper in Slaidburn. He was single, but within weeks would marry Frances Hawkins.
  
• George Whitfield; was 19 years old. Although he was originally from Woodplumpton, near Preston, he had for some time been working as a farm labourer in the Slaidburn area.

At least two other men also completed their attestations and primary medical examinations at Settle:

• George Clark; 22 years old and originally from Settle, he had lived for some time with the family in Halifax, where his father, William, had been licensee of the King of Prussia Inn (during the war, it was re-named as the King of Belgium). However, following William's death in 1912, the family had returned to Settle, where George was working as a chauffeur.
• Robert Newhouse; at the age of 34, he was one of Tunstill's older volunteers. He was a married man with four children, the oldest of whom was just 8 years old. He farmed land on the Hanlith Hall estate, near Bell Busk.

Sergeant Daniel William Paris Foster (see 10^th September) was promoted Quartermaster to the newly-formed 10^th Battalion, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant.


Sergeant Alfred John Lodge (see 16^th September) was posted to serve with the newly-formed 10^th Battalion and would become a senior NCO with Tunstill’s Company.