HARRY
SUMMERS, Private in the 26th (Bankers) Battalion,
Royal Fusiliers, was a son of Mr George Summers of Leamcroft,
Penn Fields.He entered the school in January 1906 and left in
December 1913.He distinguished himself at cricket and become a good
bowler for the 1st XI.On leaving school he entered a bank at Walsall, and was
so highly valued as an officer and a comrade that permission to
enlist was given with great reluctance.After but four months training he went to France in May
1916, and was killed at or near Martinpuich on September 15th
last, shortly before reaching his 20th birthday.Wounded in the back and lungs by the fragment of a shell,
he used his last breath in refusing help that it might be given
to another, thus recalling the noble action of Sir Philip
Sidney.