Friday 9th July 1915

Pte. George Liddemore was promoted (unpaid) Lance Corporal. He had enlisted in Haworth on 18^th September and was one of the contingent of men who had been attached to Tunstill’s original recruits in September 1914 to form ‘A’ Company. George Liddemore was one of thirteen children of George Thomas Liddemore and his wife, Rose (Palmer). George (snr.) was originally from Kent and his wife from London but they had married in Leeds in 1884, since when they had lived in various locations across West Yorkshire. George (jnr.) had been born in the Queensbury area of Bradford. By 1911 the family was living in Bocking, between Haworth and Keighley. George snr. had died in the Summer of 1913. George jnr. was aged 20 when he enlisted and gave his occupation as ‘labourer’, although he had also worked as a porter for the Midland Railway Company. His father had worked as a carter for a coal merchant, whilst most of the family had worked in the local cotton mills. George had previously served two months (dates unknown) with the Northumberland Fusiliers, but had been discharged as medically unfit.


Pte. Francis Wilson Stockell was reported by L.Cpl. Frank Bounds (see below) and Sgt. Henry Carrodus (see 10^th June) as being “absent from tattoo until reporting at 10.20pm”; on the orders of Capt. Robert Harwar Gill (see 22^nd June) he was to be confined to barracks for three days. Pte. Stockell was a 29 year-old fish and poultry dealer, originally from Middlesbrough, he had lived for many years in Bradford. He had volunteered in November 1914; he was married with one son. L.Cpl. Bounds was 25 years old and from Wakefield.