Monday 9th August 1915

L.Cpl. Thomas Walsh (see 12^th December 1914) was promoted Corporal.

Capt. Thomas Lewis Ingram, RAMC, elder brother of Lt. Robert Stewart Skinner Ingram, one of the officers of ‘A’ Company (see 22nd July) was involved in fierce fighting around Hooge and would be awarded the Military Cross for his conduct. Ingram was attached to 1^st Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry and, according to the citation, (London Gazette, 10^th September 1915) he, “was evacuating wounded from the front trenches almost without cessation the entire nights of 9^th and 10^th August 1915, and his indomitable energy and resource were the means of saving the lives of many severely wounded officers and men. He has previously done consistently good work”. During the course of the action he had been hit in the back by shrapnel, but continued to attend to his duties.

Sunday 8th August 1915

Pte. Willie Waggitt (see 18^th July), a man well-acquainted with many of Tunstill’s Company, and who would subsequently be posted to serve with the Company was wounded while serving with 9DWR. He was posted back to England and would spend the next four months recovering from his injuries.

Saturday 7th August 1915

L. Cpl George Liddemore (see 1^st August) was discharged to duty from Frensham Hall Hospital, having spent seven days being treated for synovitis. His injury was ascribed to “probably some slight injury”.

Friday 6th August 1915

Tunstill's Company remained in training at Bramshott.

Pte. Albert Edward White was reported for ‘irregular conduct’; on the orders of Capt. John Atkinson was (see 22^nd April) he would be confined to barracks for three days. Albert Edward White was a 22 year-old brass turner from Sheffield and had volunteered in September 1914.

Thursday 5th August 1915

In late July (the precise date has not been established) the whole of 23^rd Division, including Tunstill’s Company, had begun their period of leave, prior to embarkation for active service; this was divided into two separate periods, each of one week’s leave for the men concerned. From the few details which have been pieced together, it appears likely that Tunstill’s Company took their leave in the second period, commencing around 12^th August. J.B. Priestley later recalled this as having been, “a brief last leave, spent mostly in crowded trains”.

Pte. William Baxter (see 14^th May) was reported for not having returned from is period of leave; he was due to have returned by 11pm but would remain absent until “apprehended by the Civil Police in London” on 9th August. On returning to the Battalion he would be confined to barracks for 14 days and forfeit seven days’ pay.

Pte. Benjamin Fawcett (see 13^th June) was reported by Cpls. Atkinson and Smith as having not returned from his period of leave; he was due to have returned by 11pm but would remain absent until “apprehended by the civil authorities in London” on 12^th August. On returning to the Battalion, on the orders of Lt. Col. Bartholomew, he would be placed in detention for eight days and forfeit eight days’ pay.

Pte. Albert Nixon (see 11^th July) was also reported, by Cpl. Atkinson, as ‘absent off pass from 11pm’; he would report at 10.30pm on 9^th August and, on the orders of Lt. Col. Bartholomew he would be confined to barracks for 14 days and deprived of seven days’ pay.

Wednesday 4th August 1915

Tunstill's Company remained in training at Bramshott.

Pte. Arthur Walton (see 13^th July), who had deserted from Bramshott Camp on 13^th July, was arrested at his home in Leeds and would be returned to Bramshott to await trial by District Court Martial on a charge of desertion.

Tuesday 3rd August 1915

Gilbert Tunstill celebrated his 34th birthday.

In Geraldton, Western Australia, Joseph Bell volunteered to join the Army. He was the elder brother of original Tunstill recruit William Irving Bell (see 16^th September 1914) and had emigrated to Australia four years earlier.