WALPOLE John Thomas

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John Thomas Walpole was born in Aldgate, Ketton on 17 December 1895, the son of John and Margaret Walpole. He was a gardener and a member of the Territorial Force, which he had joined in May 1914, a few weeks before the First World War broke out in August. John went out to France on 25 February 1915 with the 1st/5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. He was killed by a bullet in the fighting for the

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Rutland and The Battle of the Somme

More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.

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