On This Day, 26 November 1917

Birmingham Daily Post

Monday 26 November 1917

OLD EDWARDIAN WRONGLY REPORTED KILLED

Private R. N. Williams, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, son of Mrs. R. H. Williams, 34 Farm Road, who, as stated in last Thursday’s “Daily Post”, was officially reported killed in action on the 8th inst., has written to his parents from a base hospital. Two letters dated the 21st inst. have been received from him, and in these he states that, though reported killed, he has “turned up smiling.”Official notifications of his death had been received both from the War Office and the Regimental Records Office. Private Williams was educated at Camp Hill Grammar School and King Edwards High School, and before enlisting in one of the Birmingham City Battalions on its formation was employed in the South African Department of Messrs. Stewarts and Lloyds. He was wounded in the Somme fighting in July, 1916, and returned to the front a year ago.