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8th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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Cpl. Thomas Samuel Carlise Joiner 8th Btn. Oxfordford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.24th September 1918) Thomas Joiner was born in Solihul on the 10th of August 1891. He served with the 8th Battalion, Oxford and Buckinghamshire Regiment in WW1. No service records survive, but he went to France 18th of September 1915. He died at the 79th General Hospital on 24th of May 1918 aged 26 years and is buried in Taranto Town Cemetery Extension in Italy. Son of Thomas and Mary Joiner of 7 Grove Avenue, Solihull, Warwickshire.
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Pte. Ernest Alfred Biggs 8th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.30th June 1915) Ernest Biggs was born in Loosley Row, Buckinghamshire in 1885, and lived on Downley Common with his wife Ella May (nee Martin), and small sons, Norman and Cyril.
On the outbreak of WWI he enlisted in High Wycombe. While at Codford Training Camp in Salisbury, he succumbed to Spotted Fever (Cerebro-spinal Meningitis) and died at the Isolation Hospital on 30th of June 1915. He was buried at Stratford-sub-Castle aged 29.
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Sgt. Harry Harrison 8th Btn. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire L.I. (d.19th Nov 1918) Harry Harrisondied of pneumonia on the 19th of November 1918, aged 28. He is buried in the Plovdiv Central Cemetery in Bulgaria.
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Sgt. Harry Harrison 8th Btn. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.19th Nov 1918) Harry Harrison served with the 8th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during WW1 and died of pneumonia on the 19th November 1918, aged 28. He is buried in the Plovdiv Central Cemetery in Bulgaria.
He was the husband of Emma Harrison, of 14, Mitella St., Burnley
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