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Pte. Anthony Hackett

British Army 23rd Btn. Middlesex Regiment

from:Shenstone, Staffordshire.

Anthony Hackett enlisted in Birmingham on the 2nd of May 1915 aged 22 yrs & 6 months. He is listed as serving at home from 25th Oct 1915 to 2nd May 1916 and joined the British Expeditionary Force in France on the 4th of May 1916. On the 11th of October 1916 he suffered a gun shot wound to the elbow during the Battle of Bapaume on the Somme. He was transferred to hospital in the UK on the 19th of October 1916 and was medically discharged on the 24th of April 1917. A Silver War Badge was awarded on the 17th of June 1917. He was one of Five sons of Arthur & Alice (née Trickett) Hackett of Shenstone, Staffordshire.



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