hop0316
hop0316 t1_j84nfga wrote
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Hi thanks I managed to find a death certificate and it’s hard to read but it is listed as something like Inflammation of the Lung so i think it was likely an illness of some sort rather than combat.
hop0316 t1_j8402m4 wrote
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I was always told my Great-Uncle died during the Great War. When I looked him up on the Commonwealth war graves site his death occurred on 30/11/18 after the end of the war. He is buried in what is now Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan. Were the British Army fighting in that region in this period?
I know we did a year or two later. He served in the 1st Armoured Brigade of the Machine Gun Corp of that helps.
hop0316 t1_j84pk2b wrote
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Yeah it’s pretty sobering, dying that way after making it through the war seems especially cruel as well.