Tuesday 10th November 1914

Harry Gilbert Tunstill was promoted Captain (from Lieutenant) and Dick Bolton promoted Lieutenant (from Second Lieutenant).

Capt. Harry Gilbert Tunstill, dated December 1914

There were also promotions for other officers of 10th Battalion. James Christopher Bull was promoted Captain ('D' Company) and Second Lieutenants Leonard Hammond (Transport Officer) (see 18th September) and Alfred Percy Harrison ('B' Company) were both promoted Lieutenant.

Harry Harris, then serving as a Private in the Public School's Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, was passed as medically fit in accordance with his application for a temporary commission (see 9th November). He was to become one of the original officers with Tunstill's Company.

 

 

At the Conservative Club in Settle the Rev. A.J. Whyte of Hellifield delivered a lecture entitled "England's Danger from the German Menace"; the meeting was chaired by Thomas Brayshaw, who had done much to support Tunstill in his recruitment drive.

 

(Image courtesy of Giggleswick School)