{"id":23628,"date":"2016-07-16T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?p=23628"},"modified":"2016-06-27T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:43:35","slug":"1916-a-porthill-scout-dies-on-the-somme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2016\/07\/16\/1916-a-porthill-scout-dies-on-the-somme\/","title":{"rendered":"1916: A Porthill Scout Dies on The Somme"},"content":{"rendered":"

One hundred years ago today, nearly two years\u00a0into the Great War and 16 days in the Battle of the Somme, Private Alfred Ernest Smith, 9144 \u2018B\u2019 Company 11th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment., died of his wounds that he received the day before, aged 23 years.<\/p>\n

Alfred\u00a0was a Porthill Scout, and was the fifth of eighteen of our Scouts, that we know of, that were killed in the Great War. He was also the first of the three Porthill Scouts, that we know of, killed on the Somme.<\/p>\n

You can read his full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Alfred Ernest Smith\u00a0b. Wolstanton 1893 \u2013 d. France 1916.<\/p>\n

\"gone-home\"<\/p>\n

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
\nAge shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
\nAt the going down of the sun and in the morning,
\nWe will remember them.<\/p>\n