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Serjeant THOMAS JAMES GILDEA

Service Number: 6976636
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 May 1940

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HALLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 2.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Hester Gildea, of Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland; husband of Sally Gildea, of Cookstown.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

HALLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Vlaams-Brabant Belgium
Number of casualties: 107
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