ROLLINGS |
Thomas
Baker |
Private
147081, 62nd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Killed in
action 28th July 1918 in France & Flanders. Age 33. Born Morborne,
enlisted New England, resident Peterborough. Son of Charles Rollings,
of Gretton, Northamptonshire; husband of Sarah Frances Rollings,
of 4, Harris St., Peterborough. Commemorated on SOISSONS MEMORIAL,
Aisne, France.
From
Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour
the following:
Volume
2, Part 4, Page 172 - ROLLINGS, Thomas Baker - Private, No 148071,
62nd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
Son of Charles Rollings, of Brookflield Lodge, Gretton,Kettering,
co.Northampton, Farmer, by his wife Mary; Born Morbourne, near
Peterborough, 8th March,1885; educated Morbourne and Gretton Board
Schools; was a Dairyman; enlisted 1st June,1917, in the 4th Battalion,
The Northamptonshire Regiment; served with The Expeditionary Force
in France and Flanders from the following Oct; transferred to
the 17th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers; was wounded at Cambrai
30th Nov,1917 and invalided to England; on recovery returned to
France, being transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in Jan 1918;
and was killed in action at Chaumzoy, south of Rheims, 28th,July
following. Buried there. He married at the parish church, Holbeach
co.Lincoln 28th Dec,1908, Sarah Frances(4 Harris Street, Peterborough)
dau. of the late Matthew Steele, of Fleet, co.Lincoln, and had
three sons; Thomas Edward born 6th Dec,1909; Roy Rpland, born
2nd Feb,1913 and Charles Raymond Russell born 20th March,1917.
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