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Sapper THOMAS LEONARD BRIGGS

Service Number: 2005740
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Engineers

1st Tramway Coy.

Date of Death

Died 20 August 1918

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOVES WEST COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

B. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Annie Matilda Briggs; husband of Annie Marie Briggs (nee Stedman), of Buena Vista Heights, Duncan, Vancouver, British Columbia. Born in Gloucestershire, England.
  • Personal Inscription IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING ACTS 17. 28
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Buried or commemorated at

BOVES WEST COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 92
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