Thursday 22nd July 1915

Tunstill's Company remained in training at Bramshott.

Pte. James Pickering (see 1^st March) was reported by Sgt. George Hebblethwaite (see 20th March) and Cpl. Herbert Lawton (see below) “absent off pass from 11.55pm”; he would not report until reveille on 27^th July; on the orders of Maj. Lewis Ernest Buchanan (see 14^th May), he would be confined to barracks for ten days and forfeit six days’ pay. 

Pte. Thomas Butler was also reported as having not returned on time from his embarkation leave; he would return at 3pm the following day and, on the orders of Maj. Buchanan would be confined to barracks for three days and forfeit two days’ pay. Butler was a 29 year-old labourer from Keighley; he was married with one daughter. 

Pte. Matthew Woodward (see 22^nd June) was also reported, by Cpls. Albert Edgar Palmer (see 17th June) and Edgar Shuttleworth (see 13^th May) as not having returned on time from his embarkation leave; he would not return until 10pm on 26^th July and, on the orders of Maj. Buchanan would be confined to barracks for ten days and forfeit three days’ pay.

Herbert Lawton was a 36 year-old waiter from Huddersfield; he had enlisted in September 1914, having previously served six years with the territorials, and had been promoted Corporal on being posted to the newly-formed 10^th Battalion on 20^th September. He was a married man with four children.

Pte. John Nunn was also reported as absent without leave not having returned on time from his embarkation leave; he would not return until 30^th July and, on the orders of Maj. Buchanan would forfeit eight days’ pay. John Nunn had been a well-known character in Bradford; born in Keighley, at various times he had been a billiard marker, hotel waiter and barman and pub comedian. On enlisting he had given his age as 34, but was in fact 40 years old. He had actually been married whilst absent; on 27^th July he had married Ethel Morrow, with whom he had lived for some time and had a daughter..