ERIC LITTLEHALES (1914-1916 : 18), Private, 22nd Durham Light Infantry, was the younger son of Mr W Littlehales of Fawdry Street, Wolverhampton.  After some time at St. Peter’s School and the Higher Grade School, he came here in 1914 and remained till July 1916, when he had reached the Lower V.  He spent a year in the office of Messrs. Walker, Lloyd & Hill, Auctioneers and Surveyors, and joined the 86th Training Reserve Battalion in September 1917.  Posted to the Durham Light Infantry he was drafted to France on April 2nd 1918, and on April 25th he fell in battle.  The action was a critical one, an attack on a very strong German position just west of Villers Bretonneux.  After many hours spent in digging themselves in during the night, the men were ordered to advance early in the morning.  Their objective was a railway line, the way to it a gap in a hedge commanded by machine guns.  In spite of his youth and inexperience, Littlehales was perfectly cool and without fear, but the machine gun fire caught him as he passed the gap and he was killed.