Saturday 10th April 1915

An inquest was held in the Town Hall, Folkestone into the sudden death of Pte. John Robinson (see 9^th April). The Borough Coroner heard from Dr. Charles Matthews, regimental doctor, who had attended the scene at Broadmead Road. He reported that he had carried out a post mortem investigation and, as reported later in the Clitheroe Times, Robinson “had a heart attack early on Friday morning and died immediately … and from the evidence given it seems clear that Private Robinson’s heart was in poor condition and that the action of dressing on Friday morning brought on the heart attack. The verdict was, “death from natural causes caused by heart failure, due to the commencement of pneumonia”.
 
John Clarence William Redington (see 17^th March) was commissioned 2^nd Lieutenant with 3^rd Battalion West Riding Regiment; he would later join 10^th Battalion. He was the younger brother of Frank Hubert Caudwell Redington who was serving as one of Tunstill’s fellow officers.

In a letter to his family Priestley revealed that he was feeling the after-effects of his vaccination; “We were vaccinated the other day and I was not feeling very well at the time. I am suffering considerably from a bad head and arm at the present time. We have got a lot of new equipment, so we are getting nearer and nearer.”