However by the time this article appeared, Mr Le Sauvage, described in the 1901 census as a fisherman, and his wife Mary, a washerwoman, had already suffered two losses. 22080 Pte Ernest Le Sauvage, RIF, was killed in action on 29 April 1916, and is commemorated on the Loos memorial. The Loos Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery, and commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay.

1250 Pte George Le Sauvage, RGLI, here described as missing from 1 December, 1917, was in fact killed in action at Cambrai on that date. He also has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Cambria memorial at Louverval.

There is some confusion about Ptes A and C Le Sauvage, as here it says that Pte A Le Sauvage RIF was wounded at the Somme and is now with the RGLI in Guernsey. However Parks has 23254 Pte Alfred Le Sauvage becoming 41 Pte A Le Sauvage RGLI, with no mention of wounds, while 23255 Pte Cecil Le Sauvage was wounded in March 1916, before joining the RGLI with the 7th Draft. The two other brothers appear to have survived relatively unscathed, and Nicolas, who would have been 38 by the end of the war, does not seem to have been called up.

Of the sons in law, 1119 Pte W P Brouard, RGLI, was taken prisoner of war at Cambrai on 1 December 1917, but returned to England on 10 December 1918. He was then issued with a Discharge Badge, commonly called a Silver War Badge or Silver Wounds badge. This was awarded to soldiers who had served outside the UK and had been discharged because of wounds, illness or old age. These numbered badges were worn with plain clothes. 1249 Pte E Le Moigne, RGLI survived the war, and returned on the SS Lydia in May 1919. He had been awarded a 29th Divisional Parchment for Gallant Conduct and Devotion to Duty. 1629 Pte T. Le Prevost, RGLI, served through the war and returned to Guernsey on the Lydia.