Glossop,+Richard

Glossop, Richard, Private, 5592, 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry Born Elton, Derbyshire Enlisted Perth, Western Australia Killed in action 11th March 1917 aged 30 Commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial

1911 Census A lead works lamp examiner Son of Samuel, a lead miner, and Ann Glossop, of Back Lane, Elton, Derbyshire

Richard Glossop enlisted on the 24th March 1916 in Perth, Western Australia. He was employed as a farmer, and stated his next of kin as his father, Samuel Glossop, of Elton, Derbyshire. Five feet six inches tall, he weighed 146 pounds, had a fair complexion, blue eyes and light brown hair, and belonged to the Church of England. He had four vaccination marks on his left arm.


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