Private Richard Puttock, son of David John and Alice Maud Mary Puttock, is commemorated at the Harponville Communal Cemetery extension in France. By 1911 he was living with his family at Faversham, in Kent. Private Puttock served in France with the 6th Battalion of The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, no. G/70103, and he died in France, aged 19, on the 1st of July 1918. He was posthumously awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal. Private Puttock was a first cousin of my grandmother, Mary Ann Littlewood.

Susan Dye