An official intimation has been received Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Ellement, of the Halfway House, St. Thomas’, Stafford, that their third son, Henry Vic Ellement, was killed in action on April 21 last. Pte. Ellement , who enlisted in the Yeomanry in August. 1914, before he was 18 years of age, was afterwards transferred to the infantry and attached to the South Staffordshire Regiment. Before enlisting he was employed by Mr. Johnson, of the Hanyards. The officer of his company, in a letter to his parents, says Pte. Ellement was killed instantaneously by a shell while on duty with his Lewis gun. With a kindly touch of felling, he adds :—“ My heart felt sore for the boy—he was sucha youngster and a nice, lovable lad.”

Mr. and Mrs. Gill, of the Tixall Lodge, have received official intimation that their son, Pte. Geo. W. Gill, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, was killed in action on June 16. Before the war he was working with Mr. Frank Dodd, of Knypersley, near Uttoxeter. He afterwards went to the Ingestre stables, where he was engaged with the remounts, and then he enlisted in the A.S.C. Remount Department and went to France. After spending several months with is unit he was ransferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers and cam to England for infantry training. He was home for short leave in December last before returning to France. He attained the age of 25 last May.