Monday 9th November 1914

The family of Joshua Crossley received a letter from Gilbert Tunstill giving details of their son’s funeral, which had taken place at Aldershot five days previously (see 4^th November).

Harry Harris, then serving as a Private in the Public School's Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, secured the endorsement of his Commanding Officer in support of his application for a temporary commission (see 5th October). He was to become one of the original officers with Tunstill's Company.

Pte. Patrick Conley reported himself as having suffered a strained muscle in his left leg; on investigation by a Medical Officer, the injury was declared to be ‘trivial’. Conley was not a member of Tunstill’s Company but, like many of Tunstill’s Company, he was from Keighley, where he had enlisted on 7^th September. He was 32 years old and originally from Hyde; he was married, with four children, and had been working as a slater.