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Second Lieutenant THOMAS GORDON EDGCOMBE ALDER

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 28 July 1918

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GLOUCESTER OLD CEMETERY

Old Ground. Sec. 8. Grave 1997.

United Kingdom

Gloucester Old Cemetery, Gloucestershire, UK (CEM 8082): photos of individual Commission headstones in Chapel Side (WW1) (courtesy of Mr John Williams, taken between Sept 2017 & Feb 2018)

Photographer: Mr John Williams

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and East Lancashire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Emanuel Benjamin and Kate Mary Alder, of Milford Villa, 50, Hanman Rd., Gloucester.
  • Personal Inscription THE WORLD IS BUT AN HOUR THE REST IS UNSEEN
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Buried or commemorated at

GLOUCESTER OLD CEMETERY
Gloucestershire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 273
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