Local newspaper entries:-

Pte. 33593 Archie Jim Fox, 3^rd Battalion Essex Regiment 16^th February 1917 aged 22 years, son of Betsy and the late James Fox.

2/3/1917

Bluntisham soldier's Funeral.

On Thursday, February 15^th, the news reached his friends at Bluntisham that Archie J. Fox., of the Essex Regiment, was seriously ill in hospital at his station.  He had contracted a bad cold, which had rapidly developed into a serious attack of pneumonia, and later in the day came the sad news that he had passed away [exactly one month from the date of his joining up].  The military authorities kindly undertook to send his body to Bluntisham for internment, and under an escort of an N.C.O. it reached the village on the Tuesday following his death.  The burial took place on Wednesday last week, and partook of a military character, the coffin being covered by a union jack.  A detachment of the local volunteers under the command of Captain C. J. Godfrey, preceded the coffin, with reversed arms.  The Parish Council, headed by its chairman, Mr. A. D. Godfrey, followed next, with a number of young men representing the local branch of the Society of Friends.