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  • SPRINGETT
  • HJ
  • HENRY JOHN
  • Ramsgate
  • Kent, England
  • Broadstairs
  • Son of Owen and Hepzibah Springett; one brother, Owen and three sisters, Mary, Nellie and Minnie.
    Husband of Lilian Ruth Springett, of 3, Albion Villas, Sowell St., St. Peters, Broadstairs, Kent; two sons, Henry Owen (1913) and Albert Lawrence (September 1918).
  • Bricklayer
  • 35 men died after a shell fell on their camp; 14 of them are buried in Lijssenthoek

Military service

  • 10 May 1915, London
  • 548425
  • Corporal
  • 255th Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers
  • ?
  • B.E.F.
  • Formerly served under n° T2332; enlisted with 2/2 Lond. Field Coy; appointed 2nd Cpl. July 1916; appointed Copl. November 1916; gunshot wounds in the head January 1917; returned to active service January 1918;

Death

  • 30 May, shell fell on their camp
  • Killed in action
  • 31 May 1918
  • 26
  • XXVIII - F - 10A

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