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Pte. Thomas Breedon Sharpe
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers
from:12 Butcher Street, Rhosllanerchrugog
(d.18th May 1916)
Thomas Sharpe joined up in Wrexham on 8th February 1915 and was posted to 3/4th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers on 20th February 1915. He was then posted to 1/4th Battalion on 28th March 1915. Thomas was killed in action on 18th May 1916. He died by a shot to the head from a machine gun while working in a mine crater east of Souchez, France. He was first buried in Ablain Saint Nazaire, then in 1921-22 exhumed and reburied at Caberat-Rouge Cemetery, France.