Britain's Final World War I Infantryman Honored At Funeral

editor@mercurynews.com (By Robert BarrAss, San Jose Mercury News
Thu, 08/06/2009 - 9:18am

WELLS, England — He was a soldier, a survivor of the trenches — and, in later years, an advocate for peace.

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