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Albert Thomas James
Their eldest son
Killed in action in France
1st July 1916 Aged 34 years
"Thy will be done"
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St James Colwall
Herefordshire
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Albert Thomas
James
1892
Ledbury, Herefordshire
1st July 1916
Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme - they left their frontline trenches at 7:40 am but lost over 80 men before the regiment had passed their own lines at Mailly. Forced to withdraw later that day as casualties mounted when they faced heavy enemy barrage and intense machine gunfire - 120 killed and missing, over 300 wounded - Albert was one of the many whose body was never discovered after the war
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Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, Somme, France
First World War
Private
1st/6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Albert's body was never found
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