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Robert Thomas Walmsley

Informationen zu Geburt

Geburtsdatum:
30/11/1891
Geburtsort:
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, Vereinigtes Königreich

Allgemeine Informationen

Beruf:
Angestellter der Transportfirma

Informationen zum Armeedienst

Land:
England, Vereinigtes Königreich
Truppe:
British Expeditionary Force
Rang:
Gunner
Dienstnummer:
796396
Einberufung ort:
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, Vereinigtes Königreich
Einheiten:
 —  Royal Field Artillery, "C" Bty. 246th Bde.  (Letzte bekannte Einheit)

Informationen zu Tod

Sterbedatum:
20/09/1917
Sterbeort:
Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station, Belgien
Todesursache:
Verwundet
Alter:
25

Begräbnisplatz

Duhallow A.D.S. cemetery
Grabstelle: x
Reihe: /
Grab: 34

Auszeichnungen und Orden 2

British War Medal
Medaille
Victory Medal
Medaille

Punkte von Interesse 2

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Meine Geschichte

Robert Thomas Walmsley was born in Liverpool, Lancashire in 1894. He worked as a shipping clerk, prior to enlisting in the army. Robert served in “C” Battery of the 246th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, of the 49th (West Riding) Division.

After having been stationed in Nieuwpoort, on the Belgian coast, Robert’s Brigade moved to the area south of Ypres, to participate in the Battle of Passchendaele.

On 12 September 1917 all Batteries of the 246th Brigade went into action at the hamlet of Vierstraat, on the Ypres–Kemmel road. The guns of the Brigade had been quickly discovered by the German artillery, as they were shelled on both 16 and 18 September.

On the 20th of September the Brigade was part of the artillery support for the 19th Division, which attacked along the Ypres-Comines Canal.

Gunner Robert Thomas Walmsley, 25, was mortally wounded. He died of his wounds on 20 September 1917 at the Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station, just north of Ypres. He was buried in the adjacent Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery.

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Ancestry
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/dna
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CWGC
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2936820/walmsley,-robert-thomas/
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The Long, Long Trail
http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/
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War Diary
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
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