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St Mary the Virgin St Briavels

Inscription

Also of Pte Thomas James Kear

Of the 1st Devons Regt

Son of Thomas and Celia Kear

Who made the supreme sacrifice in Arras France

March 16 1917 Aged 24 years

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Greater love hath no man than this that a man

Lay down his life for his friends

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St Mary the Virgin St Briavels

Gloucestershire

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Thomas James

Kear

1891

St Briavels, Gloucestershire

16th March 1917

Died of gas poisoning in Bethune, France

26

Bethune Town Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

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First World War

Private

1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment

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