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ALBERT
WARD SPENCER MOLINEAUX, Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps,
the only son of Mr & Mrs A T Molineaux of Albert Road,
Wolverhampton, was a pupil at the school from April 1910 to July
1911.
Having enlisted in the South Staffordshire Regiment as
soon as war was declared, he went to France with the first
Territorial Division in January 1915.
For over ten months he was in the thick of the fighting
and was then transferred to the Motor Transport.
He was then designated for Salonika, but, being invalided
home, he spent six months in hospital at Taplow.
Then he was given a commission in the Flying Corps.
Among the actions that he took part in were the battles
of Armentieres, Ypres, Loos and the Hohenzollern Redoubt.
He obtained a first-class badge as a bomber and was
looked upon as a soldier of exceptional resource and courage.
His death at Northolt, Middlesex, on July 28th
last was the result of his losing consciousness during flight.
His age was 20.
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