PTE. JOHN HENRY JERRAM, 54TH CANADIAN INFANTRY BATTN. KILLED IN ACTION NEAR COURCELETTE, NOVEMBER 18TH, 1916. AGED 45. At the School 1882—88 (Day Boy). John Henry Jerram was the elder son of the late John B. Jerram and of Mrs. Jerram, now of 2, Harrington Road, Preston Park, Brighton. Entering the School in September, 1882, he left in 1888, and was for fifteen years in the Head Office of the National Bank of Ireland, Broad Street, London. Then, in 1904, owing to the failure of his health, he was advised to go abroad and adopt an open-air life, and the Bank sent him to South Africa for a long holiday. In 1906 he went to British Columbia, and obtaining a fruit ranch on Kootenay Lake, at Harrop, near Nelson, B.C., he was doing well when war broke out. Volunteering for service in 1914, he enlisted early in 1915 in the Kootenay British Columbia Regiment, raised by Lieut.-Colonel A. H. G. Kemball, C.B., D.S.O. After training at Vernon, B.C., they came over to Bramshott Camp as the 54th Canadian Infantry Battalion and in August, 1916, crossed to France, where they formed part of the 11th Canadian Infantry Brigade. On November 18th, 1916, the Battalion took part in an advance on the Somme, near Courcelette, some six miles N. of Albert, and he was wounded in the leg. Though he was reported to have had his wound bound up and to have been seen making his way back to find a Dressing Station, all trace of him was lost and he was reported " wounded and missing." Many months later it was reported that he must have been killed by a shell on his way to the Dressing Station, and that it was found that his body had been recovered and buried one mile N. of Courcelette. Letters from officers and men of the Battalion show the respect in which he was held and tell of the spirit in which he faced the hardships of his life in the ranks, never grumbling, and " always ready to do anything for anybody."