Saturday, 3rd October 1914

Gilbert Tunstill was commissioned Temporary Lieutenant (he had applied for his commission on 23rd September). He had made it clear from the outset that he would only accept a commission if he were allowed to remain with his own Company and he now took his position as second -in command of the Company to Captain Hildyard.

Following a round of medical examinations, a number of men were discharged as being "not likely to become an efficient soldier". Pte. Fred Bentley was reported as having a “dilated and irregular heart”; he was a 30 year-old coal miner from Liversedge and was married, with one daughter. Pte. Arthur Overend had enlisted in Keighley on 20th September and had been among the local men who had been attached to Tunstill's Company when they arrived in Keighley the following day. Arthur was 30 years old and originally from Farnhill, near Keighley. He had married Mary Ellen Shackleton in 1905 and the couple had lived for some time in Cononley before moving to Keighley Road, Cowling; by 1914 they had four children. Arthur had been working as a bus driver. He was discharged due to having a "dislocated cartilage in his right knee". Pte. Ernest Campbell was a 20 year-old carter from Settle and was found to "have bad varicose veins". Pte. George Thistlethwaite (see 8^th September) was suffering from "general debility" (his brother, John William, remained a member of the Company). Pte. Joseph Webster was a 49 year-old labourer from Huddersfield and was married with one daughter. He had previously served a total of 18 years in the Army, with the Dukes and the Yorkshire Dragoons. No specific ailment was cited in his case.

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