Corporal Thomas Edmund WHITTAKER, G/24764,  6th  Battalion  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 17139, Lancers),  killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 2nd July 1918, age 20.

18th August 1897, born Miles Platting, Lancashire, son of Edmund and Margaret Mary Whittaker, 16, Wilson Street, Miles Platting, Manchester.

9th September 1897, Albert Memorial Church, Collyhurst, Manchester, baptism of Thomas Edmund Whittaker, (smith), son of Edmund and Margaret Mary Whittaker, 212 Hamilton Street.

1911 Census - 16, Wilson Street, Miles Platting, Manchester - Edmund Whittaker, head, age 46, married, blacksmith, chemical manufacturer, worker, born Miles Platting, Manchester, Lancashire; Margaret Mary Whittaker, wife, age 44, married 19 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Seacombe, Cheshire; Emily Whittaker, daughter, age 17, single, stock keeper, tailoring, worker, born Miles Platting, Manchester, Lancashire; Thomas Edmund Whittaker, son, age 13, errand boy, furniture dealer, worker, born Miles Platting, Manchester, Lancashire; Elizabeth Whittaker, daughter, age 9, (school crossed out), born Miles Platting, Manchester, Lancashire; William Bulkeley Whittaker, son, age 7, (school crossed out), born Miles Platting, Manchester, Lancashire.

Enlisted Manchester, Lancashire.

Buried  Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, I. B. 21., Albert,  Somme, France.

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