Ptes. George Clark (see 14th October) and John Thomas Cockerill (see 14th October), the two men who had deserted from Frensham eleven days earlier were formally charged with being absent without leave by the military authorities at Frensham. Both were ordered to undergo 14 days’ field punishment number two, which required them to be detained in shackles; both would also forfeit seven days' pay.
2Lt. John Atkinson was promoted Temporary Captain. He was an Irishman, born in Bundoran, County Donegal in 1884; he was one of eleven children of George Andrew Atkinson, who was a solicitor in Dublin. John had been granted a commission with 3rd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1902 and served for six years before resigning his commission “owing to financial trouble”. John then settled in London and married in 1909; he and his wife had a child who died in infancy and, at the time of the 1911 census, the couple were living at 5 Blandford Road, Bedford Park. Living with them were three of John’s sisters, one of them also with her four months’ old son. In 1911 John had been working as a time-keeper at the Shepherd’s Bush Exhibition but by 1914 he had begun training as an engineer, working for the industrial giants, Siemens. On the outbreak of war he had immediately applied for a commission with his old regiment but had been told there were then no vacancies and was instead appointed to a temporary commission and posted to join 10DWR in training at Frensham.
2Lts. Herbert Montagu Soames Carpenter (see 31st August) and Herbert Victor Stammers (see 22nd September) were promoted Lieutenant.
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