Reading Standard Etc 01-1918

LIEUT. A.G. SUTTON KILLED IN ACTION.

Second Lieutenant A.G. Sutton, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action on Jan. 2nd, aged 19, was the youngest son of Mr. Leonard Sutton, Hillside, Reading. He was educated at St. Andrew's, Southborough, and Ropton. He was in training at Oxford Officers' Cadet Battalion last summer, received his commission in October, and went abroad to join his Battalion on December 2nd. This is the third son Mr. Sutton has lost in the war.


THE LATE SECOND LIEUTENANT A.G. SUTTON.

WAR CASUALTIES.
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KILLED IN ACTION.
ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT.

COGGS, Pte. Henry John, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Coggs, of 50, Wolseley Street, Reading. On Dec. 2nd, by a machine gun bullet. Aged 25. Pte. Coggs had seen about 20 months' service. For many years he was in the Export Dept. of Messrs. Huntley and Palmers.

DIED OF WOUNDS.

LEAVER, Trooper David W., Yeomanry, son of Mr. Wm. A Leaver, of 52, Cumberland Rd., Reading. Of wounds received in the head in Palestine on Nov. 25th. Aged 22. Educated at St. Stephens' School, he was, before the war, a compositor at Petty and Sons. He enlisted in Nov., 1915, and went to Egypt the following year.

ROYAL BERKS REGIMENT.

BLACKALL, Pte. Arthur, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Blackall, 8, Cromwell Road, Caversham. On Dec. 7th. Aged 22. After three years' service.

WOUNDED.

BLACKALL, Pte. Arthur, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Blackall, 8, Cromwell Road, Caversham. Corpl. Blackall has seen six years' service in India and is an old Reservist, and this is the second time he has been wounded.

LONG, Pte. Frank A., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, eldest son of Mr. Long, head gardener to Sir Robert Hermon-Hodge at Wyfold Court. Dangerous, after two years' service in France.

WINTER, Pte. A.T., of Chievely, near Newbury. Pte. Winter, whose age is 20, has been wounded twice previously and is now a prisoner of war.

PRISONER OF WAR.

NORRIS, Pte. Charles, 33610, Devon Regt., is a prisoner of war since Oct. 26th, 1917.

WHEELER, Pte. E., Leicestershire Regt., of Exbourne Road, Abingdon, camtured by the enemy last May, is now a prisoner of war in Switzerland.

ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT.

MOORING, Pte. Joseph, 5, New Street, Vineyard. Previously reported missing, and now through the Red Cross Society, reported a prisoner of war in Germany.

MISSING.

BELCHER, Signaller William Edward, of West St. Helen Street, Abingdon. Since Nov. 30th.

INVALIDED.

ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT.

BLACKALL, Pte. Wm., of 8, Cromwell Rd., Caversham. After ten years' service.

SICK.

RALPH, Driver T.W. (Jack), R.G.A., of 21, Howard Road, Wokingham. Dricer Ralph has successfully sustained an injury to the leg, and is suffering from chronic bronchitis.

ROYAL BERKS REGIMENT.

SHIPWAY, Pte. Leonard, of 2, North St., Caversham, late of Field Road, Caversham. Suffering from trench fever.


LIEUT. KNOWLES KILLED IN ACTION.

Sec. Lieut. WALFORD VERNON KNOWLES, Royal Berkshire Regt., who was killed in action on Dec. 31st 1917, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Knowles, of Kendrick View, Reading. Born in January 1898, he was educated at Reading School, into which he took an open scholarship in 1909 - one of the first scholarships offered by the Reading Town Council. In 1916 he passed the Higher Certificate Examination with distinction in French and German. During his last year at school he won the Laud Scholarship (the blue ribbon of reading School), also an Exhibition at Worcester College, Oxford., and was further awarded the Ewelme Exhibition in favour of an open Classical Exhibition at New College, Oxford.

It was not only in his studies that he did well, by in every side of school life he made his mark, becoming a member of the Rugby football and cricket teams, a sergeant in the Officers' Training Corps, and finally Captain of the School. Of those who have in recent years held this coveted position he is the third to make the supreme sacrifice during the war, the other two being W.M. Cooper and D.J. Davies. "As head of the School," says Mr. Keeton, the Headmaster, "he was extremely conscientious and energetic, and in all departments showed the same qualities of zest and keenness and the desire to do his very best. He won the esteem and affection of all, both masters and boys."

On reaching military age he carried the same characteristics into the sterner school of war, passing with credit through his cadetship at Gales and afterwards Portsmouth. He went out to France early in October as Sec. Lieutenant in the County Regiment, and in his all-too-brief period of service has already won the affection and esteem of his comrades and superior officers. "It is with the deepest regret," writes Lieut.-Colonel C.M.H. Stirling, commanding his Battalion of the Berkshire Regt., to his parents, "that I have to tell you of the death of your son in action on Dec. 31st. His loss has made us all most sad, as everybody liked him and he was such a good officer."

He was a member of Trinity Congregational Church and Institute. By his death at the post of duty his many friends have to mourn the loss of a very choice spirit; while Reading loses yet one more of the most promising of its sons.