Completed David Homer

[mjay]

Private 295153 David Homer
1896 -22/10/1917
https://www.tiptonremembers.net/index.php/homer-david

Dob abt 1896

Baptism 23/9/1896
Staffordshire West Bromwich
Church name St Peter
Register type Parish Register
Register entry number 1853
Baptism date 23 Sep 1896
Person forename David
Father forename David
Mother forename Alice
Father surname HOMER
Person abode Whitehall Rd
Father occupation Mill furnace man

Parents David Homer & Alice Knight

Father David Homer here on bcc
https://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/brows ... ver=677639

Parents Marriage 25/12/1893 St James West Bromwich Sandwell 31/3/184

25 Dec 1893
David HOMER 27 B Mill Furnace Man 17 Black Lake Father Joseph Homer (Dec) Bullfurnace Man
Alice Knight 22 S 17 Black Lake Father Caleb Knight Labourer
After Banns Both Signed
Wit; William Homer / Maria Vowels

1901 276 Whitehall Road, Great Bridge, Tipton, Staffs.
David Homer 35, Labourer in Ironworks, born Swan Village
Alice wife 29, born Swan Village
William 6 Swan Village
David 4 Swan Village
Richard 2 Swan Village
Alice 1 week Swan Village

1911 276 Whitehall Road, Great Bridge, Tipton, Staffs.
David Homer 45, Furnaceman West Bromwich
Alice 39 wife West Bromwich
William 16 Screwer West Bromwich
David 14 Glass Works
Richard 12 School West Bromwich
Alice 10 School West Bromwich
James 6 West Bromwich
Nellie 3 West Bromwich
Arthur 10 months West Bromwich

1917 Info from Tipton Remember page family were living 276, Whitehall Rd., Great Bridge, Tipton, Staffs.

WW1 RECORDS
Private 295153 David Homer
Died of Wounds on Monday, 22nd October 1917, age 21.
Buried in Grave XXX. F. SA. at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas De Calais, France.
2nd/7th Bn., Manchester Regiment. 199th Brigade of 66th Division.
Formerly 203188 South Staffs Regiment.
Son of David and Alice Homer, of 276, Whitehall Rd., Great Bridge, Tipton, Staffs.
Born: Great Bridge, Enlisted: West Bromwich, Resident: Tipton.
First landed France & Flanders, post 31st December 1915.
Medal entitlement: British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Soldier's Papers at National Archives did not survive.

Dod 22/10/1917 died from wounds in France

Burial
Buried in Grave XXX. F. SA. at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas De Calais, France.

www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/502316/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108 ... avid-homer

Commemorated on the Salem Chapel, and St. Peter's, Greets Green memorials.

Any other info
45 men of the 2/7th Manchesters were killed on the 7th - 9th October, so it is likely that David was injured at that time. He would have been evacuated through the Casualty Clearing system, and arrived at the Base Hospitals at Etaples. It was here that he died on 22nd October, and was buried in Etaples Military Cemetery.

[mjay]

All added & Completed

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Thank you.