Saturday 20th March 1915

L.Cpl. Arthur Edward Hunt (see 5^th March) was promoted Corporal.

A/QMS George Edmund Fricker (see 26^th January) was posted to 11DWR at Brocton Camp, Staffs.; on transfer he would lose his acting rank of QMS and revert to Colour Sergeant.

Four men were transferred to join 3DWR at North Shields. They were L.Cpl. Frederick Griggs (see 12^th December 1914) and Ptes. Thomas Campbell (see 22^nd October 1914), Walter Shackleton (see below) and Walter White (see 3^rd February).

Walter Shackleton was one of a number of volunteers from Burley-in-Wharfedale who had become ‘adopted’ members of Tunstill’s Company in September 1914. He was 28 yeas old and had married Susannah Mounsey in October 1910; their first child, Winifred, had been born in 1913. Walter worked as a fitter in a local printing works.