Private Thomas Hartley

Private Thomas Hartley, 1st/7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was killed in action in Belgium on 26th April 1915, aged 25, during the Second Battle of Ypres and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium. The Battalion had only landed in France on 21st April and had been rushed up to the Ypres Salient to take part in an abortive attack which cost the untried Territorials heavily.

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