Identity
Person No.
15423
Service No.
774083
Last Name
First Name
Ernest Thomas
Initials
E T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
29
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Military Service
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Son of Ernest William and Henrietta Eusebia Massam, of Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia.
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External References
Stories 1
I am proud to have this mans leather on oak cartridge magazine it has a brass plaque with his name and Malpas Cheshire from where he came. Greenshields, Lieutenant George Lockhart, 13th Company Imperial Yeomanry He died June 9th, 1901, at Grootafdeeling, twenty miles south east of Zeerust, of wounds received in action two days previously. He was the eldest son of Robert Low Greenshields of Liverpool, and the Beeches, Malpas, Cheshire. He was born November 1876, and educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford, being in the cricket and football teams at both places. He was a keen sportsman and a good rider. Lieutenant Greenshields was a partner in the well-known shipping firm of Greenshields, Cowie & Co. Being appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Shropshire Yeomanry March 1900, he joined the Imperial Yeomanry in February 1901, with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the army. When lying wounded he continued to cheer his men and urge them on. He was buried at Grootafdeeling Jess Nelson
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