| Other Info | Enlisted in June 1916 (age 17) and was initially with the 16th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Died age 19 (11 days after his 19th birthday). Most likely killed by German machine gun fire as the Worcesters advance past Chateau Wood towards a spur near Bellewaerde Ridge.
Son of Mrs. Drucilla Twamley, of 52 Godiva Street, Coventry.
Buried at DIVISIONAL COLLECTING POST CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, West-Vlaanderen, Ieper, Belgium - grave Ref: II. J. 18.
The CWGC has documents showing originally his name was included as one of the missing at the Menin Gate and that it now appears removed as he has a known grave. His grave was found in about 1925 and he was re buried at Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery in Belgium. He was identified from an identity disc possibly after a battlefield search.
His older brother Leonard Twamley had been killed a year before on 31st July 1916 at Fromelles. |
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