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In Memory of FRANCIS H. TALBOT
Private
20894
transf. to (104796) 175th Coy., Labour Corps
who died on
Thursday 21 March 1918 . Age 21
Additional Information:
104796 Private, 175th Company, Labour Corps. Killed in action at Moisel on Thursday 21 March 1918. Age 21. The youngest son of Henry and Elizabeth Talbot, 2 Bridge Street, Barford. He was born in Barford and he enlisted in Warwick. He served overseas at some time after Saturday 1 January 1916. He formerly served as 58299, Devonshire Regiment. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France. He is also commemorated on a Memorial Screen, St. Peter’s Church, Barford. Holder of British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Cemetery:
POZIERES MEMORIAL Somme, France Grave or Reference Panel Number: Panel
94
Location:
Pozieres is a village 6 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert.
The Memorial encloses Pozieres British Cemetery which is a little south-west
of the village on the north side of the main road, D929, from Albert to
Pozieres.
On the road frontage is an open arcade ter-minated by small buildings
and broken in the middle by the entrance and gates. Along the sides and
the back, stone tablets are fixed in the stone rubble walls bearing the
names of the dead grouped under their Regiments.
It should be added that,
although the memorial stands in a cemetery of largely Australian graves,
it does not bear any Australian names. The Australian soldiers who fell
in France and whose graves are not known are com-memorated on the National
Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.
The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels dedicated
to the Regiment served with. In some instances where a casualty is recorded
as attached to an-other Regiment, his name may alternatively appear within
their Regimental Panels. Please refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction
to determine the alternative panel numbers if you do not find the name within
the quoted Panels.
Historical Information:
The POZIERES MEMORIAL relates to the period of crisis in March and April
1918 when the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers
across the former Somme battlefields, and the months that followed before
the Advance to Victory, which began on 8 August 1918.
The Memorial commemorates
over 14,000 casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African
Forces who have no known grave and who died on the Somme from 21 March to
7 August 1918. The Corps and Regiments most largely represented are The
Rifle Brigade with over 600 names, The Durham Light Infan- try with approximately
600 names, the Machine Gun Corps with over 500, The Manchester Regiment
with approximately 500 and The Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery with
over 400 names.
The memorial encloses POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, Plot II
of which contains original burials of 1916, 1917 and 1918, carried out by
fighting units and field am-bulances. The remaining plots were made after
the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields immediately
surrounding the cemetery, the majority of them of soldiers who died in the
Autumn of 1916 during the latter stages of the Battle of the Somme, but
a few represent the fighting in August 1918.
There are now 2,755 Commonwealth
servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery.
1,375 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to
23 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. The cemetery and
memorial were designed by W H Cowlishaw.
Regiment, Corps etc.
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Labour Corps |
Battalion/etc.
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Surname |
TALBOT |
Christian Name(s) |
Francis Henry |
Born |
Barford, Warwick |
Enlisted |
Warwick |
Residence |
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Died Date |
21/03/18 |
Rank |
PRIVATE |
Number |
104796 |
Died How |
Killed in action |
Theatre of War |
France & Flanders |
Supplementary notes |
FORMERLY 20894, R. WAR. REGT. |
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