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Thomas Beaumont

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
2806
Unit at enlistment: 
2nd Divisional Supply Column
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Commemorated at: 
St. Paul's Methodist Church (Paris)
Birth country: 
England
Birth county: 
West Yorkshire
Birth city: 
Bradford
Address at enlistment: 
Paris, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
Paris, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Weaver
Religious denominations: 
Methodist
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
20

Letters and documents

BX May 25, 1916

Aeroplanes Overhead

Writing from somewhere at the front, Driver Thomas Beaumont of Paris, now with the Supply Column, says: 

We have had some lively times just lately through the German aeroplanes. I was in a certain place just a week ago when no less than three aeroplanes came right over my head, on their deadly mission, dropping bombs as rapidly as you could count them. It was exactly 4 a.m. One bomb dropped no more than 100 yards away, so you can bet I felt pretty nervous. In another place the following morning they came again, so near that bits of shrapnel struck the roof under which I was sleeping with about twenty more. But it’s all in the game.

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