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24616 Private Samuel CAPEWELL
Joined the GRENADIER GUARDS on 21st December 1915 age 22.
He was posted to 2nd Battalion in France on 28th August 1916.
He was killed in action on 25th September 1916 at Lesboeufs, on the Somme.
He was in France for just 29 days before being killed.
He is buried in the Guards Cemetary, Lesboeufs.
He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
He is remembered on the Doulton War Memorial which was recently found in Haden Hill House.
My G G Uncles.
20028 Private Benjamin TROMANS
4th Worcestershire Regiment
He was wounded at Gallipoli and evacuated back to England.
He died on 19th April 1916 and was interred at St Lukes , Cradley Heath on 22nd April 1916 with full military honours.
20082 Private John Henry TROMANS
4th Worcestershire Regiment
He was killed in action on 6th August 1915 and has no known grave.
He is commemorated on Panel 104 to 113 of the Helles Memorial. He left a wife and seven children.
Both brothers enlisted at Stourbridge in December 1914 along with John's brother in law James Stevens.
All three men are remembered on Cradley War Memorial.
There is a letter written by Benjamin to his wife that was printed in the County Express and can be viewed on the Cradley Links website.
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