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Private THOMAS GRIMSEY

Service Number: 3/1829
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

11th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 August 1916

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAMEL MILITARY CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL

I. B. 33.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Elijah and Emily Grimsey, of Stoke-by-Nayland, Colchester.
  • Personal Inscription DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI
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Buried or commemorated at

HAMEL MILITARY CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL
Somme France
Number of casualties: 494
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