Saturday 15 August 2009

10924 Pte Thomas Vizard, 2nd Bn, Middlesex Regiment

10924 Pte Thomas Vizard of the 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, died of wounds on the 15th August 1917. According to Soldiers Died in The Great War, Thomas was born in Stowbridge, Worcestershire and enlisted in London. He was a career soldier who had originally joined the Middlesex regiment in 1906 and who had first set foot in France on 7th November 1914.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission adds no additional information about this man. He is buried in The Huts Cemetery near Ypres, grave reference II.C.18.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in the Great War

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