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Pte. Thomas Beresford
British Army 8th Battalion Green Howards
from:Pump Row, Durham City
(d.25th Apr 1918)
Thomas Beresford was born in Shropshire, but his family moved to Durham for work down the mines and Thomas was a miner at the time he enlisted in the Green Howards on 21st November 1914. He was posted to the 8th battalion on 16th December and the battalion went to France on 26th August 1915 .
Thomas was transferred to the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment in 1918 and was killed in action on 25th April 1918 aged 35 in the second Battle of Kemmel in Belgium.