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Hornshaw and Fowler provide the details and CWGC support them in clarifying his real rank. Originally from Witham in Essex, he was educated in Saffron Walden at the Grammar School where he was captain of both football and cricket. His parents moved to Southowram and he then worked in insurance before enlisting in September 1914. Serving in France and Greece, he was commissioned in January 1918, he was killed by machine gun fire leading a wiring party on only his 3rd day back on the front in France. He is also commemorated on IWM 2738.