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Digital gallery of Private Thomas Hampshire
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Hampshire
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Hampshire
Ingatestone and Fryerning War Memorial (2006): Until 2006 the joint Parish did not have a war memorial listing all those who gave their lives in both World Wars.
The 1914-1918 panel includes the name of Thomas Hampshire from Beggar Hill, Fryerning, Ingatestone, Essex, England who emigrated to Canada prior to 1914 and who enlisted in the 8th (Manitoba) Batt CEF at Valcartier.
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Hampshire
Ingatestone & Fryerning War Memorial (2006): The 1914-1918 panel which includes Thomas Hampshire.
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Hampshire
Ingatestone & Fryerning War Memorial (2006):
The name of Thomas Hampshire on the 1914-1918 panel.
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Hampshire
Extract from the 1914-1918 Muster Roll kept in Ingatestone Church showing Thomas:
The date of death given is 10 May 1915. Probably this was when is family in Beggar Hill heard about Thomas posted as "Missing". He did however disappear near St Julien on 25 April 1915.
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Ingatestone and Fryerning War Memorial (2006): Until 2006 the joint Parish did not have a war memorial listing all those who gave their lives in both World Wars. The 1914-1918 panel includes the name of Thomas Hampshire from Beggar Hill, Fryerning, Ingatestone, Essex, England who emigrated to Canada prior to 1914 and who enlisted in the 8th (Manitoba) Batt CEF at Valcartier.
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Ingatestone & Fryerning War Memorial (2006): The 1914-1918 panel which includes Thomas Hampshire.
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Ingatestone & Fryerning War Memorial (2006): The name of Thomas Hampshire on the 1914-1918 panel.
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Extract from the 1914-1918 Muster Roll kept in Ingatestone Church showing Thomas: The date of death given is 10 May 1915. Probably this was when is family in Beggar Hill heard about Thomas posted as "Missing". He did however disappear near St Julien on 25 April 1915.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 18 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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