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Pte. Thomas Baxter
British Army Norfolk Regiment
from:London
Thomas Baxter was born in 1875 and first saw combat whilst serving with the 9th Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War. He was demobbed in 1901 having been wounded at the battle of Modder.
He rejoined the Army in November 1914 and immediately saw service in France. By the end of the war he was a broken man, badly gassed and unable to hold down a decent job.
He was bombed out of his house during the Second World War and went to live in Wales with in-laws where he died in 1941.