7729 Corporal Percy Chambers of the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, was killed in action on the 18th February 1915.
Percy was born at Cavendish in Suffolk, and he enlisted at Bury-St-Edmunds in 1909. He is buried in La Brique Military Cemetery No 2.
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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Thursday, 18 February 2010
Monday, 21 December 2009
8513 Pte Arnold Balmforth, 2nd Bn,York & Lancs Regt
8513 Pte Arnold Balmforth of the 2nd Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment, was killed in action on the 21st December 1915. He was 29 years old and the son of John Balmforth.
Arnold was born in Rossington, Doncaster and enlisted in Doncaster on 9th October 1906. He is buried in La Brique Military Cemetery No 2 in France. His partial service record survives in the WO 363 series at the National Archives (and also on Ancestry).
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Arnold was born in Rossington, Doncaster and enlisted in Doncaster on 9th October 1906. He is buried in La Brique Military Cemetery No 2 in France. His partial service record survives in the WO 363 series at the National Archives (and also on Ancestry).
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
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