A lonely farm
Aug 5th, 2007 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Cross ChannelSomerset – 5th August
Kneeling in church after the service this morning, I read the details of a war memorial tablet on the church wall. I must have seen it many times, but its oddity had never struck me before.
Two young men were commemorated, the first:
Lance Corporal James Robert Uttermare Mead
7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry
who died age 26
on 5th August 1917
Perhaps the memorial struck more forcibly because today is the 90th anniversary of James Mead’s death.
The memorial continues:
Also
Gunner Thomas Champion Denham Mead…