Rushden Argus, 18th May 1917, transcribed by Kay Collins
Irchester Man Dies of Wounds
Pte. Harry Laughton, of the Yorks Regt., whose relatives live in Thrift-street, Irchester, has died of wounds in hospital in France. Writing to his mother, Sister Jean Fraser Gunn says: “He was admitted to this clearing station suffering from injuries to head and leg. He was able to be operated on for the leg, but the head injury was too extensive. I am very sorry, and the only thing I can tell you is that when I asked him whom I was to write to he said, ‘Mother,' with such a loving smile. He did not speak again, and passed quietly away at 7.45p.m.”
The chaplain, in a sympathetic letter, says deceased was buried in a “little quiet cemetery close by, where many a brave man lies in his last sleep.”
|
