Police office’s pilgrimage to remember fallen Somme colleague 

A West Midlands Police officer has travelled 700 miles to remember a fallen colleague he’s never met… one of the bravest of the brave killed at the Somme.Wolverhampton Police PC Henry George Kidd signed up with the First Battalion Grenadier Guards at the outbreak of World War I.He was cut down by machine gun fire on 16 September 1916 during a Somme offensive and later succumbed to his wounds in a field hospital.Modern day Wolverhampton Police Sergeant Andy Padmore paid his respects