BIRDSEYE Arthur Thomas 2/Lt

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Surname: BIRDSEYE;

Forename(s): Arthur Thomas;

Initials: AT;

Rank: 2/Lt;

Born in: Sutton, Surrey;

Enlistment Date: 10-Feb-1909;

Previous Number: 387;

Previous Battalion: 1/6 of;

Previous Regiment: Suffolk Regt;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 242 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 242 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 2 Bn;

Date abroad: 31-Dec-1917;

Theatre of War: 1;

How killed: DOW;

Where: France;

When killed: 25-Apr-1918;

Other Data: born 6/5/1890
gazetted 18/6/1917
24/4/1918 adm 100FA gsw lt thigh & side - dow 25/4/1918
Estate: £232/10/1d
(Widow remarried Apr 1922 - Gilbert E Layzell, at Bromley, Kent - Died 1958, Hove, Sussex);

Other Notes: BIRDSEYE, Lieutenant, ARTHUR THOMAS, 2nd Bn. Machine Gun Corps. Died of wounds 25th April 1918. Age 29. Son of Thomas and H. Birdseye, of Lowestoft; husband of Hilda Florence Birdseye, of 38, Marine Parade, Lowestoft. VI. A. 40. Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1 - Somme, France.;

Related National Archives files: WO339/86563;

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