Remembering World War I: Students who gave their lives

Today, 100 years ago, J Bostock, a typography student at the City School of Arts and Crafts (a predecessor of DMU) who joined the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment with the rank of private died at the age of 20. He is commemorated on the Thiepval War Memorial and is listed in the Printing Trades Class’ Roll of Honour.