THE DOINGS OF THE SETTLE TROOP
Our Settle and District readers will be interested to hear
that the Settle Company of Kitchener’s Army – who are included in the 10th
Service Battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment – left
Frensham Camp on the 2nd December (sic. 1st December) and
went into the Oudenarde Barracks, North Camp at Aldershot. The men are well and
contented and are working hard for their country’s cause. There are many
civilians who do not even yet realise how much these men have given up and how
cheerfully they face hardships in order that those at home, unable for various
reasons to give their services, may still enjoy the comforts and undisturbed
peace of their own homes.
The next move of the Regiment was on Monday (7th December) to Camberley,
where they remain for seven days, then back to barracks again. The men are in
the midst of company training, and all ranks are doing their best to become
efficient. K. Earnshaw, R. Coltswell (sic,
Cresswell), J.H. Hitchin (Hitchin in fact had already been recommended for a commission - see 5th December) and N. Roberts have gained promotion, and there
are many other Settle lads who are marked out for promotion in the immediate
future. The last few weeks at Frensham were very rough, and the men found that
it was no picnic to camp out in November. There are two invalids in hospital:
Private C.P. Branthwaite, of Newsholme, who is very ill with pneumonia and Pte.
Greenhow, from a very bad attack of the same disease.
In addition to the promotions of Settle volunteers, other men serving with Tunstill's Company had also been promoted. These included John Hartley and Fred Hopkinson who had volunteered with the Cowling recruits (see 20th September).
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