Saturday 15th August 1914

Ellis Harold Stott joined his territorial battalion (1^st/6^th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment) for active service. His younger brother, Barker Stott, would enlist in September 1914 and would be one of the Keighley recruits who would become ‘adopted’ members of Tunstill’s Men.

Barker Stott

Barker Stott was 18 years old in August 1914. He was the sixth of nine children born to John and Mary Stott. The family lived in Gladstone Street, Keighley and John had worked for many years as an
engine tenter for Messrs Dean, Smith and Grace at the Worth Valley Works in Pitt Street; the company manufactured lathes and other precision engineering equipment. Barker followed his father into an apprenticeship at the engineering works, as had three of his elder brothers. Not only had Ellis been a member of the Territorials, but so too had another brother, John Arthur.