Never forget: John Travers Cornwell VC, 16 years old, who died while serving with the Royal Navy at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the citation stating: "the instance of devotion to duty by Boy (1st Class) John Travers Cornwell who was mortally wounded early in the action, but nevertheless remained standing alone at a most exposed post, quietly awaiting orders till the end of the action, with the gun's crew dead and wounded around him.”

Nigel Payne