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Boy 1st Class. John Travers Cornwell VC MID.
Royal Navy HMS Chester
(d.2nd Jun 1916)
John Cornwell was killed in action on 2nd of February 1916, aged 16. He is buried in grave 55. 13 in Manor Park Cemetery in London. He was the son of the late Eli Cornwell, of 10, Alverstone Rd., Manor Park, Essex, and the late Lily Cornwell(nee King), of 745, Commercial Rd., Stepney, London. Born Leyton,West Ham.
His father, Private E.Cornwell and half brother Private A.F.Cornwell also died in the war.
An extract from The London Gazette, dated 15th September 1916, records the following: "Mortally wounded early in the action, Boy, First Class, John Travers Cornwell remained standing alone at a most exposed post, quietly awaiting orders, until the end of the action, with the gun's crew dead and wounded all round him. His age was under sixteen and a half years."
