Working parties continued to be provided; otherwise
conditions were quiet.
Sgt. John William
Wardman (see 14th October)
departed for England on ten days’ leave.
Pte. Albert Bradley
(see 2nd October) was
appointed (unpaid) Lance Corporal.
L.Cpl. Willie Marsden (see 9th July)
was admitted to 70th Field Ambulance for dental treatment; he would
be discharged to duty on 6th November.
Pte. Harry Gordon
Binns (see 5th July),
who had been in England since having been wounded in July, was transferred from
83rd Training Reserve Battalion to 3DWR at North Shields.
2Lt. George Henry
Roberts (see 19th October),
who had been in hospital in Southampton for the previous two weeks being
treated for “trench fever and slight debility”, appeared before a Medical
Board. The Board found him unfit for duty and ordered that he be re-examined in
another month.Capt. Gilbert Tunstill (see 20th October) who had been granted a month’s sick leave from 16th October, following the injury he had sustained in September, now wrote to the War Office requesting that his next Medical Board be convened at either York or Leeds. Tunstill was currently staying with Mr. T.B. Ecroyd, at Low House, Armathwaite, Cumberland.
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Capt. Gilbert Tunstill
Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton
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Following her recent application for a pension, the War
Office wrote to Mrs. Marian Carpenter, mother of the late Capt. Herbert Montagu Soames Carpenter (see 20th October), who had
been killed in action on 5th July. Having considered her
application, she was told that, “In reply to your application for pension as
the mother of Capt. HMS Carpenter, I am directed to inform you that, in view of
the fact that your husband is not incapacitated by age or infirmity, you are
not eligible, under the regulations, for a grant of pension from Army funds”.
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Capt. H.M.S. Carpenter
Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton
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A payment of £10 17s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount
outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Tommy Cartman (see 12th
October) who had died of wounds following the action at Contalmaison in
July; the amount would be paid to his mother, Mrs. Ellen Rishworth, in
accordance with the terms of Tommy’s will, even though he had lived almost all
of his life with his maternal aunt and her family.
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| Pte. Tommy Cartman |
A series of articles appeared in the weekly edition of the Craven Herald with news regarding
casualties among members of Tunstill’s Company.
PAYTHORNE FARMER'S SON KILLED
Mrs. J. T. Lofthouse, of Paa Farm, Paythorne, has received
information that his son, Pte. Anthony
Lofthouse (see 30th
October), of the West Riding Regiment, has been killed in action.
Pte. Lofthouse, who was an only son, and 23 years of age,
enlisted in Capt. Tunstill's troop in September, 1914, going out to France a
year later. He will be much missed in the neighbourhood, for he was of a happy
and genial disposition.
Pte. B. Butler (see 10th October), writing to
Mr. Lofthouse, says:- "I am extremely sorry to have to break the news to
you. Anthony got killed by a shell in a bombing expedition on October 5th. I
feel very much upset about him. We were good pals, and he was greatly respected
by all the lads in the company. I shall miss him very much. I saw him buried
and got some of his belongings, so I will see you get them. We have had a rough
time of it lately, but are out of the trenches now for a rest."
PAYTHORNE - Cr. J. T. Lofthouse's Loss
At the monthly meeting of Bowland Rural Council on Monday a
vote of condolence was passed with Mr. J. T. Lofthouse, Paythorne, in the loss
of his only son who was killed in France a few weeks ago. In moving the resolution,
the Chairman said that if there was any consolation for Mr. Lofthouse, it was
the knowledge that his son died in the service of his King and Country. The
resolution was seconded by Mr. Gill, and the members signified their approval
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| Pte. Anthony Lofthouse |
RALPH - In loving memory of Private Christopher Ralph (see 27th
October) of the 10th Duke of Wellington's (W.R.) Regiment, of Hellifield,
who was killed in action in France on October 6th 1916.
No mother's care did him attend,
Nor o'er him did a father bend;
No sister there to shed a tear,
No brother by, his words to hear.
Sick, dying, in a foreign land,
No father there to take his hand,
No mother near to close his eyes
Far from his native land he lies.
From Sisters and Brothers, Haw Grove, Hellifield
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| Pte. Kit Ralph |
EARBY MAN MISSING
Pte. Percy Wharton, Duke of Wellington's (7070), has been
officially reported missing since September 3rd. Any news of him will be
gratefully received by his parents, 8, George Street, Earby. Mr. and Mrs.
Wharton have three other sons in the Army - Sergt. Allan Wharton (see 13th
October), in the 10th Duke of Wellington's, and Lance-Corporal Richard
Wharton, in the 9th, and another on home service. The two first mentioned have
been in France during the greater part of the conflict. A son-in-law, Gunner
Frank Whitehead, is serving in India
SKIPTON'S ROLL OF HONOUR - PTE. CHARLIE BRANSTON KILLED
Another fine young Skipton soldier has made the supreme
sacrifice - Pte. Charlie Branston (see 12th October), of the
Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment, and son of Mrs. Branston, of 27,
Brook Street, Skipton. This is Mrs. Branston's second bereavement, her nephew,
Pte. T. B. Cartman (see above), who lived with her for many
years, having died from wounds in July last. The sad news respecting her son
was received on Saturday morning, an official intimation from the War Office
stating that he had been killed in action on October 12th. Deceased, who was
only 20 years of age, was a fine specimen of manhood, and was nearly six feet
in height. Formerly employed at Messrs. Lipton's Ltd., he enlisted with Captain
Tunstill's men in September 1914, and went out to France thirteen months ago.
He was wounded in July last, but had never been granted a leave since he went
to the Front. Deceased and his cousin, Pte. Cartman, were both employed at
Messrs. Lipton's Ltd. They enlisted together, did their training together, and
were both wounded on July 10th.
Pte. Branston was a member of the Skipton Branch of the
National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks, and in
a letter to his mother, Mr. George L. Haigh, secretary of the local Branch,
writes:- "It is with the regret of myself and all the members of the above
Branch that I offer you my deepest sympathy in the loss of your gallant son in
action. It seems hard lines that after being so long in France he should meet
the same fate as Tom, but I sincerely hope you will bear up in your loss. He
was one of the best of men to work with either at business or for the Union. To
this I can testify. I can hardly realise it yet, the news coming to me as a
great surprise, although I could not understand not hearing from him for over
three weeks."
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| Pte. Charlie Branston |
SEDBERGH - MEMORIAL SERVICE
There was a large congregation at St. Andrew's Church on
Wednesday week, when a service was held in memory of Sergeant Harry Lyddington Mason (see 25th October) and Private
Harry Clemmett, who have fallen in the war. The Vicar (Rev. A. H. Walker) took
the major portion of the service, and the lesson was read by Rev. H. F.
Donaldson Selby. The special hymns were 'The Son of God goes forth to war',
'Lead Kindly Light', and 'Peace, prefect peace'. At the conclusion of the
service the organist, Mr. A.E. Thorne, played the 'Dead March'. |
| Sgt. Harry Lyddington Mason |
There was also news of other men of the Company.
AUSTWICK
Home on Leave
Cpl. Fred Swale (see 23rd October) of the 10th
service battalion Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment reached home on
Sunday morning on six days’ leave. Cpl. Swale enlisted in September 1914, being
one of Captain Tunstill’s hundred, and was in training in the south of England
for eleven months. In August 1915, along with his Battalion, he left for
France. He has seen fourteen months hard fighting, and has been in many stiff
encounters, but is in the best of health and very bright and cheerful. |
| Cpl. Fred Swale |
ADDINGHAM - NEWS FROM SOLDIERS
Private William Dixon (see 13th October), writing from No. 2 Convalescent Camp,
Rouen, says:- "I was sorry to hear about
W. Waggitt's death (see 27th
October) ; R. Smith (see 13th October) told me
about him; they were both together when he got killed and Smith got wounded. I
was wounded the day before. I don't think the war will last much longer, and
the sooner it is over the better. We go down to Rouen nearly every day to the
football matches or the pictures. We have a very good football team."
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| L.Cpl. Willie Waggitt |
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| Pte. Reuben Smith |
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