Thursday 22nd July 1915

Tunstill's Company remained in training at Bramshott.

Pte. James Pickering (see 1^st March) was reported by Sgt. George Hebblethwaite (see 20th March) and Cpl. Herbert Lawton (see below) “absent off pass from 11.55pm”; he would not report until reveille on 27^th July; on the orders of Maj. Lewis Ernest Buchanan (see 14^th May), he would be confined to barracks for ten days and forfeit six days’ pay. 

Pte. Thomas Butler was also reported as having not returned on time from his embarkation leave; he would return at 3pm the following day and, on the orders of Maj. Buchanan would be confined to barracks for three days and forfeit two days’ pay. Butler was a 29 year-old labourer from Keighley; he was married with one daughter. 

Pte. Matthew Woodward (see 22^nd June) was also reported, by Cpls. Albert Edgar Palmer (see 17th June) and Edgar Shuttleworth (see 13^th May) as not having returned on time from his embarkation leave; he would not return until 10pm on 26^th July and, on the orders of Maj. Buchanan would be confined to barracks for ten days and forfeit three days’ pay.

Herbert Lawton was a 36 year-old waiter from Huddersfield; he had enlisted in September 1914, having previously served six years with the territorials, and had been promoted Corporal on being posted to the newly-formed 10^th Battalion on 20^th September. He was a married man with four children.