Friday 3rd May 1918

Billets at Cornedo Vicentino.

Ptes. Roderick Harmer (see 23^rd April) and Frederick Sharp (see 31^st March) were admitted to 71^st Field Ambulance, suffering from scabies. Harmer would be discharged after four days and re-joined the Battalion but Sharp would remain in hospital.

L.Cpl. Stanley Basil Studd (see 12^th December 1917) and Pte. George Holmes (10794) (see 13^th February), serving in France with 9DWR, were transferred to 2^nd/4^th DWR.
Ptes. James Arthur Markinson MM (see 15^th April) was posted from one of the Base Depots at Etaples to re-join 2DWR.

The weekly edition of the Craven Herald carried news of two original members of Tunstill’s Company who had been caught up in the German Spring Offensive in France. Pte. Tom Swales (see 22^nd March), serving with 9DWR near Havrincourt, had been reported wounded and missing on 22^nd March; he would subsequently be presumed to have been killed on or around this date. Pte. Robert Cresswell (see 26^th April), serving with 2^nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment had been taken prisoner on 26^th April.

WOUNDED AND MISSING

Private T. Swales, West Riding Regiment, has been reported missing since March 22nd. His parents, who live at Rylstone, would be grateful for any news of him.

Pte. Tom Swales

GIGGLESWICK

A Fine Record – News was received by his wife on 24^th ult., from Robert Cresswell, Yorkshire Regiment, that he is a prisoner of war in Germany and is quite well. Mrs. Cresswell had previously heard from Corpl. H. King, Horton-in-Ribblesdale (who is wounded and in hospital) that her husband was captured, along with several others, on March 21^st. Pte. Cresswell enlisted in September 1914, proceeding to France in the following August and has seen much fighting on the Western Front. He is one of six brothers all serving in the Forces. One was killed in April 1917, two have been wounded in the present battle, one is serving in India and one is still in France. They are the sons of Mr. W. Cresswell, of Broad Green Farm, Essex. The report in last week’s “Craven Herald” that Pte. R. Cresswell was reported missing is, we are informed, without foundation.