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Pte. Thomas William Shearing
British Army 1st Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:4 Copenhagen Street, Barnsbury, Islington, London
(d.10th March 1915)
Thomas Shearing Y/1166, 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, reported killed in action at Givenchy, France.
I have a photograph of the original burial by the German Army under the name Schaering in Courrières Cemetery, France. Most of the burials in this photograph are associated with Feldlazarett 4 des IV Armee-Korps [Field Hospital 4 of the 4th Army Corps]. His body was exhumed and reburied circa 1922/1923 in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France. His date of death was stated to be 10th March 1915 in British Army records and in the Imperial War Graves Commission document used to prepare his current headstone; other records and the original German headstone state the 15th as the day of death. The 10th March corresponds with a failed offensive on Givenchy-lés-la-Bassée by 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, after which many soldiers were missing presumed killed. However, it appears likely that Rifleman Shearing was wounded and taken by the Germans for treatment to Feldlazarett 4 des IV Armee-Korps where he died on the 15th.
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