Rushden Echo, 23rd March 1917, transcribed by Kay Collins
Two Deaths from Wounds
Acting Corpl. Arthur H. Groom, Rifle Brigade (son of the late Mr. Charles Groom, of Raunds), who was last week reported seriously wounded, died of wounds on March 9th. Deceased was formerly employed as clerk by the Raunds Co-operative Society.
Pte. John B. Higby, Bedfordshire Regt., another Raunds soldier, and a chum of the late Acting-Corpl. A. R. Groom, has died of wounds in hospital in France.
Private Higby and Acting-Corpl. Groom enlisted last May in the Beds. Regt., and went out to France within a day or two of each other last September, and both have died from wounds within a few days. They were engaged to sisters, the Misses Barnes of Woodford.
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