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David John Thomes enlisted in Swansea. He served as Private 15068, of the Prince of Wales Own, 6th South Lancashire Regiment. He was killed in action, on 19 April 1916, in Mesopotamia. He is remembered with honour on the Memorial to the Missing in Basra, Iraq and on the Great War Road Screen Memorial, All Saints' Church, Mumbles, Swansea.

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