Carpenter G T Pte 208147 7th North Staffs Regiment

CARPENTER, GILBERT TOM, Private, No. 208147, 7th (Service) Battn. The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regt.), 4th s. of Edwin Carpenter, of Durley Hall Farm, Durley, by his wife, Rose, dau. of John Wilkins, of co. Hereford; b. Durley, co. Hants, 15 April, 1899; educ. National School there; enlisted in the North Staffordshire Regt. in Nov. 1915; served with the Indian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia from Nov. 1915, and died in Kasvin Military Hospital 2 Nov. 1918, of influenza and malaria, contracted while on active service. Buried at Kasvin: unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

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