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Digital gallery of Private Thomas Larkin
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Private Thomas Larkin
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Private Thomas Larkin
Emigrated to Canada from Ireland 1914 and died in France in 1917 at the age of 22. Was survived in Armagh, Ireland by one sister - Elizabeth - who went on to have 14 children and 150 grandchildren.
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Private Thomas Larkin
Attestation paper signed in Toronto 1915 where Thomas Larkin, an immigrant from Belfast, Ireland, resided in a boarding house.
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Private Thomas Larkin
Description of Thomas Larkin on page two of attestation paper
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Private Thomas Larkin
location of death and burial
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Private Thomas Larkin
On this card is given the names of Pte Larkin's next-of-kin who received his medal. He had an uncle Thomas Larkin living in Belfast, and a half-sister, Lizzie, living in Armagh.
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Private Thomas Larkin
Grave marker in Maroc British Cemetery, France.
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Emigrated to Canada from Ireland 1914 and died in France in 1917 at the age of 22. Was survived in Armagh, Ireland by one sister - Elizabeth - who went on to have 14 children and 150 grandchildren.
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Attestation paper signed in Toronto 1915 where Thomas Larkin, an immigrant from Belfast, Ireland, resided in a boarding house.
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Description of Thomas Larkin on page two of attestation paper
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location of death and burial
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On this card is given the names of Pte Larkin's next-of-kin who received his medal. He had an uncle Thomas Larkin living in Belfast, and a half-sister, Lizzie, living in Armagh.
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Grave marker in Maroc British Cemetery, France.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 272 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY Nord, France
Maroc is a cemetery located in the village of Grenay which is about 15 kilometres south-east of Bethune. From Lens take the N43 towards Bethune. After Loos-en-Gohelle turn left (after the petrol station) and follow straight on. The MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY is a few kilometres on the right side of the road, in the village.
The Cemetery was begun by French troops in August, 1915, but it was first used as a British Cemetery by the 47th (London) Division in January, 1916. During the greater part of the War it was a front-line cemetery, protected from enemy observation by a slight rise in the ground, and used by fighting units and Field Ambulances. Plot II was begun in April, 1917, by the 46th (North Midland) Division. By the middle of October, 1918, Plot III, Row A and part of Row B, had been filled; and the remainder of Plot III and the ends of certain rows in Plot I contain the remains of soldiers buried on the battlefields, or in small cemeteries, North and East of Grenay, and brought in after the Armistice. The 8th Canadian Battalion erected a wooden memorial in the cemetery to their officers and men who fell in the Battle of Hill 70 (East of Loos) on the 15th August, 1917.
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