World War One: Casualties from Wolverhampton Grammar School

NEVILLE LLOYD-PARTON, Private, 7^th Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, came to the school from Newport (Salop) Grammar School in September 1896 and left in December 1899. For six years he was with Messrs. Mander Bros., and then went to Berne, Switzerland, as a teacher of English in the Berlitz school. He next went to Wismar, on the Baltic coast of Germany, and when he returned to England was in business successively at Birmingham, Barrow-in-Furness and Manchester. In March 1916 he joined the 9^th Battalion of the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Transferred to the 7^th Battalion, he went to France in July and was killed in action on November 13^th. He was aged 34.