Tuesday 20th June 1916

Billets at Enquin-les-Mines

Training continued.

L.Cpl. Tom Jackson Tindall (see 29^th September 1915) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 2^nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station to 8^th British Red Cross Hospital at Paris-Plage; he was suffering from influenza.

L.Cpl. Harry Clark (see 12^th April) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance to 23^rd Division Rest Station, suffering from a high temperature; he would be discharged to duty after three days.

Pte. Thomas Barber Dudley (see 10^th June) was discharged from 4^th Stationary Hospital at Arques, following treatment for dental caries; he would rejoin the Battalion via one of the Base Depots at Etaples (details unknown).

Pte. Booth Dean Hartley was sent home from France having been taken ill. He had been one of the Earby volunteers who had been added to Tunstill’s original recruits in September 1914. He was born on 23^rd October 1888 and was the third of four children of Greenwood and Elizabeth Hartley; his father had been licensee of the White Lion Hotel in Earby, but he had died on 6^th February 1913. Booth himself had been working as a twister in the local cotton mills. 

Pte. Thomas Smith of 10DWR (though not of Tunstill’s Company), died at 22^nd Casualty Clearing Station and was buried at Bruay Communal Cemetery; he had been injured while attached to 176^th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers.

2Lt. Henry Kelly arrived in France en route to join 10DWR. He was born 10^th July 1887, the eldest son of Charles and Jane Kelly. His father was originally from Ireland but the family was settled in Manchester. Henry was educated at St Patrick's School and Xaverian College, both in Manchester. After moving to King Street in Moston he was employed as a sorting clerk at the Newton Street sorting office and joined the Manchester Royal Engineers Territorials. On 5^th  September 1914 he enlisted with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders as a Private. He transferred to the Manchester Regiment and was promoted Lance Corporal and two weeks later Sergeant Major. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 12^th May 1915.

Pte. Benjamin Wilson (see 31^st January) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds; he had had his left leg amputated having been wounded in November 1915. He was awarded an Army pension of 25s. per week for two moths, reducing thereafter to 12s. 6d. per week for life.