Gilbert Tunstill was commissioned Temporary Lieutenant (he had applied for his commission on 23rd September). He had made it clear from the outset that he would only accept a commission if he were allowed to remain with his own Company and he now took his position as second -in command of the Company to Captain Hildyard.
Following a round of medical examinations, three men from Tunstill's Company were discharged as being "not likely to become an efficient soldier". Two of them had been among Tunstill's original recruits: Ernest Campbell from Settle was found to "have bad varicose veins" and George Thistlethwaite from Austwick was suffering from "general debility" (his brother, John William remained a member of the Company).
The third man discharged was Arthur Overend. He had enlisted in Keighley on 20th September and had been among the local men who had been attached to Tunstill's Company when they arrived in Keighley the following day. Arthur was 30 years old and originally from Farnhill, near Keighley. He had married Mary Ellen Shackleton in 1905 and the couple had lived for some time in Cononley before moving to Keighley Road, Cowling; by 1914 they had four children. Arthur had been working as a bus driver. He was discharged due to having a "dislocated cartilage in his right knee".
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