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TOM PROCTOR
BORN BARTON, LINCS, 1886. ELDEST SON OF TOM PROCTOR AND MARY JANE COLLINGWOOD, OF 26, SOUTERGATE, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE. SON A CEMENT WORK'S LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED AS A CYCLE FITTER.
HE ENLISTED IN GRIMSBY. SERVED WITH THE 1/5TH LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED AT LOOS, ON 13/10/1915, AGED 29.
HE MARRIED AT BRIGG, IN 1906. LEFT A WIDOW, EDITH ANNIE DIXON AND FIVE CHILDREN, AT 50, NEWPORT STREET, BARTON ON HUMBER, LINCOLNSHIRE. SHE RE-MARRIED A SOLDIER IN THE HUMBER GARRISON ON 27/12/1916 AND HER WAR PENSION WAS REDUCED.
HIS SISTER, ALICE COLGRAVE, LIVED AT 57, WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 20/11/1915. *
Loos-en-Gohelle 62750
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