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11th (Midland Pioneers) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
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Sgt. Charles Milbourne Wright 11th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment So far it's unknown when Charles Wright signed up but he was born abt 1899 Leicester, Leicestershire to Francis William Wright and Jessica Allan Ross Frazer who was born in Nova Scotia, Canada to a Scottish Family. From what I have found, he was an only child but had a lot of Frazer cousins in England, Scotland and America. Charles served with the 11th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment and was commissioned into the Queen's West Surrey Regiment on 4th of May 1917.
I am still trying to find more information on Charles and his military career but I will keep searching.
Thank you for the information you have provided about the 11th Leicestershire Regiment.
Beverly Peer Lackenbauaer
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Pte. John Purdie 11th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment (d.1st July 1918) John Purdie is a long distant relative who has come to "life" as it were, in a heap of photographs and letters stored here for many years without really being viewed. Now we find the card announcing his death to his wife. We know where he is buried and, as we journey often to northern France, we find him and pay our respects.
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Pte. Ernest Weller 11th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment (d.3rd June 1916) Ernest Weller was my paternal grandfather's youngest brother. My grandfather told me that following a family row involving harsh words he had enlisted. My grandfather and his parents had huge regrets about this.
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Pte. Walter Edwin John Sealey 11th Btn. (Midland Pioneers) Leicestershire Regiment (d.15th Nov 1917) Walter Sealey died of gunshot wound to the spine, 20 days after the injury, at King Georges Hospital, Stamford Street, London. He left a son, Albert Henry Sealey, aged 3 years, as an orphan, his mother having died in 1916.
Editor's Note:- He is interred in the St. John the Baptist churchyard at Niton, Isle of Wight.
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