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Private Thomas A Prescott 19887
13th Kings Liverpool Regiment
Volunteered and was drafted into the 13th,
battalion of the Kings’ Liverpool Regiment.
He was the third son of James and Nancy Prescott of Smithy
Lane, Aughton husband to Mary Alice Prescott and the father of three children.
Germany fought fiercely, but unsuccessfully throughout the
war to ‘take’ Ypres, in order to cut the allied supply line from the English
Channel to the Western Front.
Thomas, who was a transport driver, lost his life in one of
these early battles, actually on the 20th of December 1915 aged 32
years.
He is buried in plot 1, row D, grave 21, of Poperinghe New
Military Cemetery, Belgium, 9km west of Ypres.
