Captain Tunstill's Men - a day-by day account of one Company in the Great War

Although the precise date cannot be confirmed it seems that it was around the first week in November that 2Lt. Dick Bolton wrote up, in his ...

Pte. Walter Isherwood , who had died, aged 16, on 27 th October whilst in training at Frensham, was buried at St Andrew’s Church in Slaidbu...

Cpl. Edward Hunter was promoted Sergeant; he was a 43 year-old clay miner, originally from King’s Lynn, but had been living in Halifax. H...

Tunstill's Company remained in training at Frensham.

In the last week in October Tunstill’s Man, Lance Corporal Norman Roberts (he had been promoted on 12 th October) wrote home and described ...

Tunstill’s Company suffered their first death, just five weeks after leaving to begin their training. Walter Isherwood , who had been take...

Tunstill's Company remained in training at Frensham.