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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Tolleshunt D'Arcy
• Land Essex
• Family Son of Walter and Sarah Saye, of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex. Nine brothers and sisters: William Charles (1877), Frederick Walter (1879), Mary Ann (1882), Eliza Ann (1885), Ernest James (1888), Ellen Florence (1890), Effie Henrietta (1892), Walter Abraham (1894) and Cecil John (1897). Four brothers joined up, one of them did not return. Ernest James died on the Somme in 1916.
• Education Tolleshunt d'Arcy village school
• Profession Butler Valet in Richmond, Surrey

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 27 January 1916, Colchester
• Service number 216472
• Rank Gunner
• Medals victory medal
• Regiment and unit 157th Brigade Royal Field Artillery "D" Bty.
• Other data related to military career officer's batman

Death

• Wounded 1 October 1918, near Zandvoorde, while in a trench
• Type of wounds Wounded in the leg, died of wounds
• Died at the age of 20
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXX - A - 5

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