Tuesday, 6 January 2015
Thursday, 7th January 1915
The Earby recruits who had been attached to Tunstill’s
Company returned home on one week’s leave.
Monday, 5 January 2015
Wednesday, 6th January 1915
A Christmas party for soldiers’ children was held at the
Conservative Club in Settle; the event was hosted by Mr. John Moore, who had
been prominent in the organisation of Tunstill’s recruiting campaign.
Sunday, 4 January 2015
Tuesday, 5th January 1915
Reginald Hancock was released from hospital following
his treatment for scabies (see 2nd January).
Charles Edgar
Shuttleworth (known
as Edgar) was appointed Acting
Unpaid Lance Corporal and transferred to ‘D’ Company. He was one of the Earby
recruits who had volunteered in Skipton on 9th September and had
subsequently been attached to Tunstill’s Company. Aged 25, he was the son of
Charles Shuttleworth, the owner of the Victoria weaving shed in Earby and had
been working in the family business along with his two brothers. Edgar
Shuttleworth’s administrative and managerial experience would seem him promoted
eventually to Company Quartermaster Sergeant.
Friday, 2 January 2015
Sunday, 3rd January 1915
Tunstill's Company remained in training at Aldershot.
At home in Bradford, Martha Chapman , wife of
Pte. Septimus Chapman, gave birth to the couple’s fifth child; she would
be named Catherine. Septimus Chapman was a 31 year-old labourer and had
enlisted in Bradford in September 1914.
Thursday, 1 January 2015
Saturday, 2nd January 1915
Several members of Tunstill’s Company were affected by an
outbreak of scabies (a contagious skin disease, which spreads readily in
instances of close contact). At least three men were hospitalised and treated
at Connaught Hospital.
Leonard Fox was one of Tunstill’s original Settle volunteers (see 11th September). Horace Dunn had enlisted in Keighley on 12th September; he had stated his age as 19 on his attestation papers but was actually aged only 16. Prior to enlisting he had been working as a fitter’s apprentice with Dean, Smith and Grace, a large engineering company based at Worth Valley Works in Keighley. His mother, Agnes, had died in 1906 leaving her husband, Benjamin Dunn, a chimney sweep, with the care of four young children. Reginald Hancock was another of the Keighley recruits. He was 19 years old and originally from Yeadon but recently had been living with his father, Edwin and stepmother, Mary in nearby Guiseley (Reginald’s mother, Eden Hancock, had died in 1907). Both Reginald and his father worked as weavers in the local woollen mills.
Leonard Fox was one of Tunstill’s original Settle volunteers (see 11th September). Horace Dunn had enlisted in Keighley on 12th September; he had stated his age as 19 on his attestation papers but was actually aged only 16. Prior to enlisting he had been working as a fitter’s apprentice with Dean, Smith and Grace, a large engineering company based at Worth Valley Works in Keighley. His mother, Agnes, had died in 1906 leaving her husband, Benjamin Dunn, a chimney sweep, with the care of four young children. Reginald Hancock was another of the Keighley recruits. He was 19 years old and originally from Yeadon but recently had been living with his father, Edwin and stepmother, Mary in nearby Guiseley (Reginald’s mother, Eden Hancock, had died in 1907). Both Reginald and his father worked as weavers in the local woollen mills.
Friday, 1st January 1915
Support for the men of Tunstill’s Company who had returned
from leave to resume their training at Aldershot continued, with the weekly
edition of the Craven Herald
reporting that the Cowling Distress and Belgian Relief Committee, “have this
week sent to the Cowling recruits stationed at Aldershot a number of under
vests”.
Pte. William Baxter
(see 15th December 1914) was
reported as not having returned from leave; he would report back to the
Battalion at 8am on the 6th January; on the orders of Captain Lewis Ernest Buchanan (see 16th
November) he would be confined to barracks for five days.
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