Lance-Corporal William Pocock of 6th Battallion Royal West Surrey Regiment.

Died of wounds received after a bomb from a German trench mortar pitched close to the shaft where he and his comrades were posted. Pocock and two others were buried and their comrades worked hard to release them. When they reached them they were found to be badly wounded. They were removed to hospital but William Pocock later died of his wounds.

Previously he was a gardener in Oxted living in Mill Lane.

died of his wounds

Marie Bromley