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Personal data

• Name SPRINGETT
• Initials HJ
• First name HENRY JOHN
• Place of birth Ramsgate
• Country Kent, England
• Last residence Broadstairs
• Family Son of Owen and Hepzibah Springett; one brother, Owen and three sisters, Mary, Nellie and Minnie.
  Husband of Lilian Ruth Springett, of 3, Albion Villas, Sowell St., St. Peters, Broadstairs, Kent; two sons, Henry Owen (1913) and Albert Lawrence (September 1918).
• Profession Bricklayer
• Extra info 35 men died after a shell fell on their camp; 14 of them are buried in Lijssenthoek

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 10 May 1915, London
• Service number 548425
• Rank Corporal
• Regiment and unit 255th Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers
• Army - Corps - Division ?
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Formerly served under n° T2332; enlisted with 2/2 Lond. Field Coy; appointed 2nd Cpl. July 1916; appointed Copl. November 1916; gunshot wounds in the head January 1917; returned to active service January 1918;

Death

• Wounded 30 May, shell fell on their camp
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 31 May 1918
• Died at the age of 26
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVIII - F - 10A

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