Monday, 8th February 1915

In training at Eversley.

Pte. John Henshall was sentenced to 21 days’ detention; the nature of his offence is unknown. He was a 23 year-old miner from Bradford and had enlisted in September 1914.

Pte. Daniel Wilson was formally discharged from the army on medical grounds, due to varicose veins. He was a 33 year-old labourer, originally from London, but had been living in Bradford; he was married, with one son.

In Pontefract, Alice Talbot gave birth to a baby boy who would be named Harry. Alice was unmarried but the child was accepted as being the son of Harry Holmes. He was a 22 year-old dyer’s labourer from Girlington, Bradford who had enlisted in Bradford on 8^th September 1914 and had been posted to the newly-formed 10DWR, although not to Tunstill’s Company.