RIPLEY AND HEANOR NEWS 
7TH JUNE 1918
CODNOR GUNNER KILLED

Gunner Jno Graney R.G.A. was killed in action in France on the 13th May, after having 
served two years fifteen months of this in France. Mrs Graney (Codnor) received an 
official communication to that effect on the 30th May, and a letter from his battery Major 
just a week previous who said:

     Dear Mrs Graney I am sorry to have to tell you that your son was killed instantaneously
by a shell on the 13th of this month (May) you have my heartfelt sympathy and that 
indeed of the whole battery he was buried in a cemetery by a chaplain along side of 
another man who was killed by the same shell. I feel the loss of him and the other man, 
Tydsley very much indeed as they are two of the battery that came out with me, of 
which not very many are now with me