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Cpl. Thomas Blackett

British Army 7th Btn. Green Howards

from:Sunderland

(d.1st July 1916)

Thomas Blackett was born in 1896 to Richard William Blackett and Frances Ellen Stonehouse. In the 1911 census he is listed as a pony driver in a pit. He joined up and died on the first day of of Battle of the Somme during the capture of Fricourt. He is believed to be buried in a mass grave at Fricourt British cemetery and he is listed on the Ryhope war memorial.



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