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Personal data

• Name HARPER
• Initials T
• First name THOMAS
• Place of birth Wednesbury
• Country Staffordshire
• Last residence Wednesbury
• Family Son of Thomas and Emma Edwards, of Hill Top, West Bromwich, Staffs.; two brothers and four sisters.

Military service

• Service number 8024
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st/5th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment
• Division - Brigade 137th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 46th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France on 5 March 1915

Death

• Wounded 24 August, S.W. Slope of Hill 60, shell burst
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds to the abdomen, n°17 CCS
• Date of death 26 August 1915
• Died at the age of 19
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery III - C - 29

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