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Rank : Acting Corporal

Army Number : 13999

Unit : 8th Bn

Biography :

Home address given as Loughborough, Leicestershire. Enlisted into The Leicestershire Regiment at Loughborough on 5.9.1914. Served with the 8th Battalion in World War One, entering France on 29.7.1915. Killed in Action at Trones Wood near Gueudecourt on the Somme in France on 25.9.1916, aged 29: "When the whistle blew and C Company went over the top, he was shot through the head." His body was never recovered. Awarded the Military Medal posthumously (London Gazette 27.10.1916, page 10478). He is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France; on the memorial at All Saints Church, Loughborough; and on the Brush Company Memorial (in the Carillon War Memorial Museum) as well as on the Carillon. . For more information visit: http://www.carillontower.org.uk/tigers

This page was last edited on 30.9.2019.

Date of Birth : c1887

Place of Birth : All Saints, Loughborough, Leicestershire

Date of Death : 25.9.1916

Place of Death : Gueudecourt, France

Civil Occupation : drilling machinist, the Brush Company, Loughborough

Period of Service : 1914-16

Conflicts : WW1

Places Served : France