Wednesday 24 February 2010

203095 Pte John Voller, 1/4th Hants Regt

354 British Army officers and men died in this single day in 1917. That's enough men to populate all the teams in the English Premier League - on one day.

203095 Private John Voller of the 1/4th Hampshire Regiment was killed in action on the 24th February 1917. He was born in Shottermill, Surrey, was living at Grayshott, Hants and enlisted at Petersfield, also in Hampshire.

John Voller died during operations in Mesopotamia. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial in Iraq.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

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