Saturday 14th August 1915

Pte. Frank Hargrave was reported as absent from tattoo until 9.45pm.

Frank Hargrave had enlisted on 11^th September 1914 in Ilkley and had been one of the men posted to ‘A’ Company to supplement Tunstill’s original recruits. He was born in 1885 in Addingham, one of the ten children (four of whom had died in infancy) of Frank (snr.) and Mary Hargrave. Frank snr. worked as a stonemason and Frank jnr. was a bricklayer. Frank jnr.’s younger brother, Edward, had joined 6^th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers in July 1915.

Having returned from his final leave, J.B. Priestley wrote home to his family from Bramshott: “We have not gone out yet, as you see, but we have rumours – thousands upon thousands of them. We have received strict orders that, when the time comes, we have not to mention the port of embarkation to anyone. The latest rumours are that we’re for the Dardanelles, not France, but nobody knows definitely … If you don’t hear from me for a long time, you’ll know we’re on our way to the Dardanelles”.