... headmaster of the Summercourt Council School, Mid-Cornwall, and was mentioned in despatches for good work at the Ist battle of the Somme. A brothei was killed in Palestine. ...

... ARTILLERY BATTLE RENEWED THE SOMME FRONT. BRITISH POSITION IMPROVED (PRESS ASSOCIATION WAR SPECIAL,) GENERAL HEADQUARTER*. FRANCE, , 10.7,0 a.m, lighting took place early this morning the Somme, the neighbourhood Hangard. Our position this sector ...

... wounded in France, and now lying at Chelsea Hospital. Gunner Blaker went France in August, 1914, and wae wounded in the Somme battle in July, 1916. He returned France in December the same year. Previous to the war he was with the 33rd Brigade, R.F.A., ...