Credit photo to R Pigram, on Flickr.
V C, Mentioned in Despatches
Boy 1st Class J/42563, John (Jack) Travers CORNWELL. Son of the late Eli Cornwell, of 10, Alverstone Rd., Manor Park, Essex, and the late Lily Cornwell(nee King), of 745, Commercial Rd., Stepney, London. Born Leyton,West Ham.His father,Private 15823 Eli.Cornwell killed 25th October 1916 aged 64. See link;
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=355593
and half brother Private 49533 Arthur Frederick Cornwell killed 29th August 1918 aged 30 see link
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=303791
John is buried at Manor Park Cemetery, Essex his father may well be in the same grave
Citation: An extract from The London Gazette dated 15th Sept., 1916, records the following Mortally wounded early in the action, Boy, First Class, John Travers Cornwell remained standing alone at a most exposed post, quietly awaiting orders, until the end of the action, with the gun's crew dead and wounded all round him. His age was under sixteen and a half years.
