Military Cross Captain dies aged 97

Regular Echo contributor Mike Jones has also kindly sent in an old Echo clipping from 1961 which features the Loughborough Owen Brown tent company and also an old shot of Hulme Street next door.

Mike says of the Echo clipping: “Top left can be seen the Hume Street Terraced Houses, which butted up to the Cherry Tree Public House (below) “The premises backed onto the then Cobden Infants School Playground. (Now Hume Street council flats). Next door, I believe, was a cycle shop and after that, what effectively served as the school Tuck Shop.

CAPTAIN William Edge Porter, the oldest surviving ex-officer of the Leicestershire Regiment and member of a well-known Loughborough family died aged 97.

He commanded the Loughborough company of the 5th Battalion (Territorial) of the Regiment, which was mobilised on thew outbreak of war in 1914 and was severely wounded in 1916.

He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in France.

Son of Mr William Porter, who farmed at Dishley Grange, near Loughborough, for many years he himself occupied Knightthorpe Lodge Farm before retiring and going to live with his sister in East Street, Wymeswold 14 years previously.

Mr Porter was a bachelor and his nearest relatives were his nieces and nephews - Mr and Mrs L Trevor Jones, of Little Eaton, Mr and Mrs G Hodson, Wymeswold and Major General Cecil Eking who lived in the south.

The funeral service was to take place at All Saints’ church, Thorpe Acre, followed by internment in the family grave at the churchyard.

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