Private A.Sudworth
K.O.Y.L.I., territorials
131, Doncaster road, Denaby Main,
Private Sudworth was killed in action in France on July 4th. He leaves a widow and four children. He enlisted in October 1914, and went to France last August. The widow has received the following letter from second lieutenant O.S.Roper:
“I am deeply grieved to have to write and inform you of the death of your noble husband. He was killed in action on the fourth of this month, when we were engaged in holding the captured German line. So many men were laid low during this action that it makes it difficult to be able to tell you exactly how your husband died. You must be considered, though, that he died as only a man can, serving his country to the last.”
Mrs Sudworth has received a letter from private W Grocock, in hospital in Stoke-on-Trent, in which he says:
“I am grieved to convey to you the sad news that your dear husband was fatally wounded in the Battle of the Somme.
I went to the place where he was with some ammunition the same day, was too late to see him alive. He had just passed away when I got there. Our old friend Albert Broom was with him by his side when he died. I beg you to receive my deepest sympathy in your trouble.
You have the assurance that your husband died a heroic death, doing his duty faithfully and well.”