Second Lieutenant Philip Harle STOTT (Did not matriculate)

4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion, attached to 1/5th Battalion, Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Born 1897 in Knaresborough, West Yorkshire
Killed in action 25 April 1918, aged 20
Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, West Flanders, Belgium. Also commemorated on the Beckwithshaw war memorial, North Yorkshire; and in the St Bees School chapel.

Philip Stott was the son of Revd Herbert Robert Stott and Charlotte Ellen, née Harris, of Beckwithshaw Vicarage, Harrogate.

He was educated at St. Bees School, where he was House Prefect and Head Boy, and was elected to Merton as an Exhibitioner in 1916, but did not come up.

He enlisted in November 1916, and served in France and Belgium.

He was killed in action at Wytschaete Ridge, on 25 April 1918.