1904
Attended Elham Charity School
the Bootshoe Boys
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1914
WW1 Unit: The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 1st/5th Bn. Rank: Private. Service No: T/201585. Comment: War Memorial Elham
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The Lantern (parish magazine)
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1917
Born in Lyminge 1896. He was a pupil at the Elham Charity School and then worked on a farm in Elham, possibly Bereforstal. Just before WW1 he enlisted in the Territorial Army with the 5th Buffs at Canterbury. He went to India in 1914 and to Mesopotamia in 1915. He took part in the campaign against the Turks as was with the first British troops to enter Baghdad in March 1917. He died of heat stroke in the desert in July 1917 and is buried near his brother Albert.
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