21 December 2010

4749594 Pte Thomas Peers,2/6th Bn, West Riding Regt

4749594 Private Thomas Peers of the 2/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment, died on the 18th December 1940. Thomas was 22 years old, the son of William and Ellen Peers of Dalton. He is buried in Dalton's Holy Trinity New Churchyard in Yorkshire.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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