Saturday 28th November 1914

The weekly edition of the Keighley News carried a report of the efforts of three local young women  in supplying cigarettes to local recruits in training, including the men serving with Tunstill:

“Miss Mabel Rothera, Miss Doris Mitchell and Miss Cissie Stell, of Keighley, have sent 1,000 cigarettes to each of the following camps: 6^th Battalion West Riding Territorials at Trentham; 10^th Battalion West Riding Regiment at Frensham, Surrey; 8^th Battalion West Riding Regiment, Grantham; and a parcel to Aldershot. The young ladies are still collecting and will be glad to receive subscriptions, however small.

In a recent issue of the “News” it was stated that only one firm in the town could send tobacco and cigarettes free of duty to the soldiers at the front. A correspondent writes pointing out that any tobacconist can do this, the Government having granted the concession for the duration of the war. The only firm of tobacco manufacturers in the town are sending a large quantity of their goods direct to the front”.