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Sapper Herbert Key
British Army Royal Monmouthshire Engineers.
from:Offley Brook, Staffordshire
My Grandfather Herbert Key served as a reservist in both the 2nd campaign of the Boer War in Africa and WW1. I don't know where he was situated in either instance, however I do know that he joined the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers to fight in WW1.
He was discharged and sent home in June 1916 suffering from TB, he died on 1st December 1918 and is buried in Eclleshall's Holy Trinity Churchyard. However he does not have his name on his grave and to add insult to injury another man was buried on top of him in error. I wrote to the vicar of the church last year asking if we could place a small name plaque in his memory on the grave but I didn't receive a reply. How shameful for a man who served his country and gave his life through disease probably contracted in the trenches to be treated so shabbily, but I don't give up easily.
