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A/Cpl. Alfred Ernest Cornwell MM & bar.
British Army 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade
from:35 Chargeable St, London
Alf Cornwell was relieved from his post and when he returned 5 minutes later the man was dead. He and another Private captured a machine gun nest full of Germans alone. He earned the Military Medal and bar He also had shrapnel in his right index finger so that he couldn't straighten it. He also had a large scar from a wound that had to be sewn up: He had gone out into no man's land to bring back one of the wounded and a shell had gone off behind him and the resulting shrapnel caused the slice.
He died in 1963. He fell asleep in front of the fire in his favourite chair. He had been reading a book on cowboys and still had his reading glasses on his nose when he was found.
