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Private Harry Victor Rumsey,
2055, 1st/4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, died aged 18. He was
killed in action at Gallipoli on 14th August 1915.
Private
Harry Victor Rumsey was the brother of Mr R. E. Rumsey, Brandon, Suffolk. He was born in Brandon, Suffolk and
enlisted at Brandon.
Remembered
with honour at HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey.
This
was reported by the Thetford and Watton Times, dated September 11th
1915 ...
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KILLED IN ACTION
– An
official notification has been received from the War Office by Mrs S
Rumsey, of Stanley Row, Town Street, that her son, 2055 Private Harry V
Rumsey, was reported killed in Alexandria, Egypt, on August 14th. He was in the 4th Norfolks. A
letter dated August 11th, was received by his widowed mother,
in which he spoke of the voyage to the Dardanelles. He wrote that letter on ship, and he
must have been killed almost immediately he landed. He was 19 years of age. He has another brother, Private Robert
Rumsey, who is in the same regiment, and went out in the same boat.
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