AS A MARRIED man with children Edgar Scott didn’t get called up until halfway through the First World War.

It is believed that the Riddlesden-born cooper registered with the Army long before his conscription in November 1916.

He was allowed to stay at home with wife and children Edith, Herbert and John while single men from Keighley were sent off to fight.

When Edgar was finally called up he joined the 6th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, and was still allowed another to stay another four months with his family.

As Private Scott, he was sent to France in March 1917, and spent 10 months ‘in the field’ with his battalion, serving at Etaples.

In January of the last year of the war Edgar was again allowed to spend time with his family, staying at home in Morton Banks on leave for around two weeks.

But only 25 days after he returned to France, at the age of 36, Edgar was killed in action by the bursting of the shell.

Edgar, who before the war had worked out Holmes’s Brewery in Bingley, was buried at Polygon Wood Cemetery.

Years remembered on the First World War board at Riddlesden War Memorial Institute, under the name Edward Scott.