Lt Walter Summers MC (Seville), 23rd Battalion: Is accidentally killed while stationed at Charleroi, Belgium. A Court of Inquiry later stated: ‘Whilst working in a workshop of a Belgium civilian, de-detonating German nose caps, and after successfully completing one, he was carrying on with the second when suddenly it exploded. Killing him outright and wounding Private Miller and a Belgium civilian. He had severe laceration of left hand, left thigh and slight wound of head. Death was to haemorrhage’. He is 28 years old and is buried at the Hais Communal Cemetery, Nalines, Belgium.