Saturday 20th March 1915

L.Cpl. Arthur Edward Hunt (see 5^th March) was promoted Corporal.

Three members of Tunstill’s Company were posted to join 3^rd Battalion West Ridings. They were Lance Corporal Frederick Griggs (see 12^th December 1914) and Ptes. Walter White (see 3^rd February) and Walter Shackleton.

Walter Shackleton was one of a number of volunteers from Burley-in-Wharfedale who had become ‘adopted’ members of Tunstill’s Company in September 1914. He was 28 yeas old and had married Susannah Mounsey in October 1910; their first child, Winifred, had been born in 1913. Walter worked as a fitter in a local printing works.