Saturday 12th December 1914

There were further promotions among Tunstill's Company. Another of the original Settle volunteers, Thomas Walsh,  became Lance Corporal as did Billy Oldfield who was one of the Grassington recruits. There were also promotions for two men who had joined the Company with contingents from other areas.

Frederick Griggs was promoted Lance Corporal. He had joined with the contingent from Burley-in-Wharfedale. He was originally from Suffolk and had served three years (1900-03) with 6th Dragoon Guards before buying himself out of the Army; he had subsequently served in the militia.

Albert Edgar Palmer was also promoted Lance Corporal. He had enlisted at Ilkley on 9th September, joining Tunstill's Company with the other Ilkley recruits on 21st September. Palmer was born on 13th October 1891 in Belper, Derbyshire; his father worked as a railway clerk and Albert followed his father into the same occupation. It seems likely to have been his work which had recently brought him to the Ilkley area (in 1911 he had been living with his parents and the rest of the family in Sheffield).

Ptes. William Alfred Walmsley Gaunt, Andrew Hermiston, Thomas Angus McAndrew and John William Wardman were all promoted Lance Corporal. None of them were members of Tunstill’s Company but were serving with other companies. Gaunt was a 25 year-old engineman from Leeds; he had enlisted in Leeds on 7^th September. Hermiston was a 28 year-old clerk from Middlesbrough; he was married, with one daughter. McAndrew had joined after enlisting in Huddersfield on 9^th September; he was 29 years old and was a self-employed dentist. Wardman was a 23 year-old railway porter from Keighley. He had married Annie Lambert in the Summer of 1913 and the couple had a daughter, Grace.

Sam Shuttleworth, one of the Cowling recruits who had been posted to Tunstill's Company, was found to have been "drunk and creating a disturbance in his billet after lights out", (the men were billeted in private houses whilst training at Camberley - see 7th December) as witnessed by his Cowling colleague, Lance Corporal Hopkinson, and by Corporal Knivett. Captain Buchanan dealt with the incident and Shuttleworth was formally recorded as having been admonished for his conduct, but no further action was taken.

Frank Hubert Caudwell Redington was commissioned Temporary 2nd Lieutenant to serve with Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment. He would join 10th Battalion and serve as on of Tunstill's fellow officers with 'A' Company. Redington was 22 years old and one of eight children born to Thomas and Mary Redington. Thomas ran a drapery business in Stonebroom, near Alfreton, Derbyshire. Frank had been working as a teacher before volunteering for the Army.