Newcastle Daily Chronicle 19th May 1916
The report includes the following:
Pte. Laverick, who visited the Mayor simultaneously with Captain Mastin and Pte. Robson, V.C. was recently awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous bravery at the front. At a critical time he mounted the parapet of the trench and held up an attack, throwing no fewer than 563 bombs. He is the son of a Harton Miner and, prior to the outbreak of the war, worked at Harton Colliery.
