Tuesday 18th May 1915

Tunstill’s Man, Frank Stephenson (see 30^th September 1914) was married to Alice Midgley in a service conducted at Sutton Baptist Chapel, near Keighley. Stephenson was by now Lance Corporal (though the date of his promotion has not been established) and his address was given as 4, Bournemoth Road, Folkestone, though reference was made also to his recent stay at 2, Campbell Road, Maidstone. His bride, Alice Midgley, was a 24 year-old worsted weaver from Sutton. One of the witnesses to the ceremony, and presumably Frank’s ‘best man’, was his fellow recruit, William (Billy) Hoyle (see 7^th September 1914).

Stephen Minchin Mercer, a former officer in the Indian Army (see 19^th September 1914), who had taken a prominent role in raising recruits in the Craven area in the Autumn of 1914 was promoted to the rank of Major in the Army Service Corps.