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Sapper Richard C Gore (Battlefield Cross)

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Reference WMO/303825

Address:

StPeter's Church

Dock Road

Little Thurrock

RM17 6EX

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Battlefield (wooden) cross
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Wooden Battlefield Cross with 3 original GR tags. The marker is for WR/500839 Sapper Richard C. Gore R.E., who died from the effects of influenza on 13th November 1918. His original wooden cross now lies within Little Thurrock parish church near Tilbury in Essex. Richard was in the Royal Engineers, Inland Water Transport. He died in hospital in Rouen of influenza on 13th November 1918 aged 30. He is buried at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France, in grave S. III. Q. 15. The son of Richard and Rosina Gore of 13 Whitehall Road, Grays, Essex, and the husband of Ethel Mary Gore of 91 Richmond Road, Grays. He enlisted on 6th September 1915.
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