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Wars Last Goodbyes
Individual Record
Inscription
Also of
Ernest Thomas
Son of the above
Who died in Germany Nov 2nd 1918
Aged 33 years
Thy will be done
Place of Inscription
Ludlow Henley Road Cemetery Ludlow
Shropshire
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Ernest Thomas
Holloway
28th July 1886
Ludlow, Shropshire
2nd November 1918
Died as a prisoner of war at Forbach on the Franco-German border, possibly 'working' in the coal mines there
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Perreuse Chateau Franco British Cemetery, Seine-et-Marne, France
First World War
Private
1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Originally buried at Forbach German Cemetery, Lorraine and moved in the 1950s. He was taken prisoner of war on the first day of the Spring Offensive 21st March 1918 and was taken to amongst other places Friedrichsfeld POW Camp before ending up in the Mozelle region on the border of France and Germany where POWs were often instructed to work in the coal mines
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First World War
William Henry
Halford
895th Mechanical Transport Company Royal Army Service Corps
