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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

Buried or commemorated at

MARTINSART BRITISH CEMETERY

I. B. 14.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • 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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