JACK READING CASWELL (1904-1907 : 27), Sereant, 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was the younger son of Mr T R Caswell of Dudley Street, Wolverhampton.  From the school he went as an apprentice to Messrs. Newbury’s at Birmingham.  Within a month of the opening of the war he enlisted in the Birmingham City Battalion, and after a course of training, went to France and took part in much of the desperate fighting of 1915-17.  One episode of this period gives an illustration of the fierceness of the conflict as well as of Caswell’s fortitude. Near High Wood an attack was made on a German trench 300 yards distant.  After going 100 yards Caswell was wounded in the right side; after another 100 yards a bullet passed right through his left calf; and when the trench was reached his rifle was blown out of his hand and he was badly wounded in the right thumb joint; then he had to crawl back over the 300 yards over which he had advanced.  The action that led to his death took place on May 8th 1918, when he was attached to the Lewis Gun section.  He received shell wounds in the side and chest, and was carried to the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, and there he died from his injuries on May 15th.  He was buried at Esquelbecq Military Cemetery near Hazebrouck.  It is probably for his conspicuous gallantry on all occasions rather than for a particular exploit that the Military Medal was awarded to him, and unfortunately he did not live to wear it.  It may be recalled that Caswell was in the Football XI in 1906-7.