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Private T Pollard

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EDWARD POLLARD WELCH REGT

APRIL 17 1918 AGE 34

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Private Thomas POLLARD, G/21334, "A" Company, 3rd/4th  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 22nd November 1917, age 21.

Born Brierfield, Lancashire, son of John and Margaret Ann Pollard, 37 Castle Street, Brierfield, Burnley, Lancashire.

Sister - Etta Pollard.

Enlisted Nelson, Lancashire, age 19 years & 357 days, height 5ft 3 inches, weight 116lbs, right middle finger contracted.  

Home 23rd February 1916 to 12th September 1917; BEF 13th September 1917 to 22nd November 1917.

23rd February 1916, enlisted; 23rd February 1916, to Army Reserve; 1st February 1917, mobilized; 2nd February 1917, posted 2/9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, Service No.267200; 4th May 1917, absent from 7.45am Parade, 3 days confined to Barracks; 13th September 1917, Folkestone, embarked; 13th September 1917, Boulogne, disembarked; 13th September 1917, 41 Infantry Base Depot; 13th September 1917, posted 3/10th Battalion; 17th September 1917, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 17th September 1917, posted 3/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st September 1917, joined Unit In the Field; 11th November 1917, In the Field, awarded 14 days Field Punishment No.1.for absence from working Parade.

9th October 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, John Pollard, 37  Castle Street, Brierfield; Mother, Margaret Ann Pollard, 37 Castle Street, Brierfield; Brothers - William Pollard, age 34, 37  Castle Street, Brierfield; Albert Pollard, age 26, 37  Castle Street, Brierfield; Edgar Pollard, age 13, 37  Castle Street, Brierfield; Sisters - Henrietta Susannah Pollard, age 20, 37  Castle Street, Brierfield;

Buried at Welsh Cemetery (Caesar's Nose), I. C. 2., Belgium. Commemorated on Brierfield, Nelson, Lancashire War Memorial.

Brother also Fell - Private Edward Pollard, 9th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, Service No.20301, died 17th April 1918, age 34. Commemorated Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 93 to 94, Belgium / Brierfield, Nelson, Lancashire War Memorial.