Information on Ww1 Service Records
Trying to find service records on my great great uncle who died in WW1. He was Henry C J Belsham, lived in Stratford Essex now part of London. He was in the Devonshire Reg. Why would a boy from London end up in the far south of the UK?
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UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 about Henry Charles Jacob Belsham
Name: Henry Charles Jacob Belsham
Birth Place: Leytonstone, Essex
Death Date: 7 Jun 1915
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Stratford, Essex
Rank: Private
Regiment: Devonshire Regiment
Battalion: 2nd Battalion
Number: 3/6975
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Link to CWGC. Click view cert for more info.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/597887/BELSHAM,%20H%20C%20J
I could not find service record but I have found in near impossible to find records of those killed.
Try this site : http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/Search
He is on the lists but it appears you have to pay to view them
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