Wednesday 2nd June 1915

Tunstill's Company remained in training at Bramshott.

Pte. Fred Atkinson (see 25^th April) was reported by Sgt. Arthur Manks (see 5th April) as “absent off pass”; he would remain absent until “reporting himself to the Orderly Sergeant about 8am on 4^th June”. On the orders of Lt. Col. Hugh John Bartholomew (see 25^th May), he would be admonished and forfeit three days’ pay.

Pte. William Turner was also reported ‘absent off pass’; he would not return until 8^th June and would then be ordered to forfeit seven days’ pay. He was a 24 year-old labourer from Bradford; his wife, Amy, was pregnant with their first child