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Tuesday 3 March 2015

Thursday 4th March 1915

In Folkestone, Tunstill’s Men, along with the rest of the Battalion, were billeted in threes and fours with the inhabitants (other units of the Division were billeted in Ashford, Canterbury, Shorncliffe and Rye). The Officer’s Mess and Orderly Room were in two empty houses in Julian Road and the majority of the officers were also billeted in the neighbourhood. Among the known billets for the rest of the men were properties in Linden Crescent, Broadmead Road and Bournemouth Road.

Julian Road, Folkestone (2015); it was in this street that the Officer's Mess
and Orderly Rooms for 10th Battalion were located in 1915.

Houses in Broadmead Road, Folkestone (2015), where members
of Tunstill's Company were billeted in 1915.

One of the houses in Linden Crescent (2015) where members
 of Tunstill's Company were billeted in 1915.

Priestley was billeted with a family in Radnor Park Road, “at the house of some French people, where I shall live entirely while we are here. Think of it! – I shall sleep in a bed and have real meals! It is like having a holiday at the seaside.”
The house in Radnor Park Road (2015) where J.B. Priestley
was billeted in 1915.


Pte. Harry Wood (see 14th October 1914) was reported by Sgt. John William Headings (see 14th October 1914) as ‘late falling in and improperly dressed on 7.15am parade’; on the orders of Capt. Robert Harwar Gill (see 28th February) he was to be confined to barracks for three days.

Following the various stages of the administrative process, both Pte. Robert Newhouse and Pte. William Barker (see 24th February) were finally formally discharged from the army on medical grounds.

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