Regiment: Shropshire Light Inf.
Died: 13 November 1916 aged 29 in France. Died of wounds.
Battle: Battle of the Somme. Cemetery: Serre Road Cemetery No 2 I A 17
Son of Mrs. Southwell, Fairfield, Bridgnorth, b. 1887.
Lower IV—Lower Modern II.
Great War (overseas), Private 1914, afterwards 2nd Lieutenant 9th Shropshire Light Infantry.
'Early in the war he enlisted in the Shropshire L.I., and after being promoted Lance-Corporal was given a commission. He went to France with his Battalion, and took part in the fighting in the summer of 1916. On November 13th of that year he was wounded during an attack carried out in thick mist, and later was reported missing. It is now officially notified that he died from wounds on or about that date. A soldier in his Battalion spoke to the writer of this notice in the highest terms of his work as an officer, and especially of his constant anxiety for the well-being of his men. During the three happy, if uneventful, years he passed at Malvern be showed a keen interest in the life of the school—an interest which continued unabated in later years.' (Malvernian, Dec 1917).