Pte. Stephen Grady was reported absent from roll call parade at 7.15am, as witnessed by Cpl. Irvine Ellis; he was ordered to be confined to barracks for five days. Stephen Grady had enlisted in Bradford on 9th September at the age of 26. He was a married man, having married Elizabeth O’Connel in Bradford on 5th April 1911; the couple had a daughter, Annie, born 14th June 1912. Grady had been working as a woolcomber before enlisting. Irvine Ellis was the second son of Philip and Jessie Ellis. He was born in Redcar in 1892 and educated at Coatham Grammar School. However, following the death of his father, the family had settled in Bradford where, in 1911, Ellis had been working as an assistant textile designer. He had enlisted in August 1914 and had been posted to 10DWR. Either before or during training, Irvine Ellis had become a close friend of J.B Priestley.
In Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada, John George Waggitt signed his attestation papers and completed his primary medical examination as part of the process of enlisting for the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was the younger brother of Willie Waggitt, who, although not one of the original members of Tunstill’s Company, was well-acquainted with a number of the original members of the Company and would later serve alongside them.
The Waggitt
family were originally from Catterick but, more recently William Waggitt snr.,
his wife Jane Ann, and their six children (three sons and three daughters) had
been settled at Moorside Farm, Addingham. John George Waggitt had emigrated to
Canada in the Spring of 1914, leaving Liverpool on 14th March,
aboard the SS Alsatian. Willie had been among the Addingham and Ilkley men who
had already volunteered just before Tunstill had begun his campaign; he had
joined 9th Battalion West Ridings.
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