Stephen Nott was born in Conderton, Gloucestershire, and he lived in Evesham in 1911, when he worked in a cycle works. He enlisted on 8th December 1914, when he was employed by a farmer, in Lenchwick. He was a Driver (No. 845145) in the Royal Field Artillery and went to France in 1915, where he served for 2 years 8 months. Stephen Nott was then sent to Italy, where he was hospitalised, in Genoa, with influenza in early November 1918. He was sent back to England and completed his convalescence in the College Hospital, Whitchurch, before being discharged from the Army on 26th February 1919. Although never injured in action, he had also been in hospital in 1916 with pleurisy and in 1917 with trench foot. His record shows that he served with the Divisional Ammunition Column, whilst in the R.F.A. He was awarded the 1915 Star, British War and Victory medals.
In 1939, he was a porter and ambulance driver, living at 28 Windsor Road, Evesham, with his wife, Laura nee Grove. At the time of his death, in 1985, he was living at 4 Manor Road, Wickhamford, and he was buried in Waterside Cemetery, Evesham on 25th September.