The War effort

G. O. Sherrard joined the Royal Garrison Artillery, as did A. F. Emarton (Laboratory Attendant). J. W. Lesley joined the Yorkshire Regiment. Lesley and M. A. Bailey were awarded the Military Cross in 1916. Among the many garden staff leaving for war work were M. B. Crane who worked on munitions and W. J. C. Lawrence who joined the army.

By 1916 most of the male staff had gone to war. In addition, Florence Durham (volunteer worker) and Dorothy Cayley (mycologist) left for war service. Florence Durham moved to London in 1914 to pursue war work with the Medical Research Committee (later Council), while from 1916 Dorothy Cayley did pathological work at the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine to assist the Royal Army investigations on Tetanus.