1914 :

J.C.Dyson paid his first visit as professional conductor, fee 10/6 each visit plus railway fare, but activities were subdued during the Great War 1914/1918.

Joe Elliott joined the Band on trombone before 1914 and druing the war was in the 15th Batallion of the West Yorks. where he was instrumental in forming the Band but was invalided home from France in 1917. after the war and a short period with Rothwell Temperance he took the position of Band Master with Carlton Temperance and around 1936 gave invaluable help in the formation of Yorkshire Copperworks Band (now Yorkshire Imperial) which he conducted for many years.

Mr Elliott married a daughter of John Blackburn, one of the Temperance Band Founders.