Private THOMAS JOHN BRIGHTWELL
Service Number: 45447
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Lancashire Fusiliers
18th Bn.
Date of Death
Died 01 June 1918
Age 34 years old
- Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly Northamptonshire Yeomanry
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Thomas Henry and Mary Jane Brightwell, of 42, Sheaf St., Daventry, Northants. Born at Wellington, Nilgiri, India. Left his farm in Saskatchewan at the outbreak of War and came home to enlist.
- Personal Inscription "DUST THOU ART TO DUST RETURNEST" WAS NOT SPOKEN OF THE SOUL
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