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Military service
Service number:
45447
Age:
34
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lancashire Fusiliers
Division:
18th Bn. formerly Northants Yeomanry.
Birth:
Wellington, Nilgiri, India
Enlistment:
Saskatchewan
Death:
June 1, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. B. 14.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Henry and Mary Jane Brightwell, of Daventry, Northants. Left his farm in Saskatchewan at the outbreak of War and came home to enlist.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 584 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MARTINSART BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France
Martinsart is a small village 4 kilometres north of Albert. The cemetery is on the south side of the village on the road (D129) to Aveluy. The cemetery is signposted in the centre of Martinsart.
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