22226 Corporal T Cossey
32nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers
Killed in action 16 September 1916
Husband of Mrs. C. Cossey, of 62, Fisher St., Canning Town, London.
He is buried at Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt.
The 32nd (East Ham) Battalion Royal Fusiliers was raised in Autumn 1915 at the initiative of the Mayor of East Ham.
It sailed for Belgium on 5 May 1916 and was at Ypres until August, when it was transferred to the Somme region.
On 15 September it was involved in the battle of Flers-Courcelette.
Corporal Cossey’s name appears on the Smithfield war memorial.
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