Wednesday 21st October 1914

A month after Tunstill's recruits had left to begin their military training, conditions were becoming more difficult in the tented camp at Frensham. The mild weather of the early weeks was gradually giving way to colder and wetter conditions and some of the men were beginning to suffer from a variety of communicable diseases. One of Tunstill's recruits, Norman Roberts, told his family that he and his 'tent' had spent time in isolation following the outbreak of measles which had earlier been reported in the Craven Herald (see 16th October).