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At Stockport yesterday Mary Roden was sent to prison for fourteen days for falsely personating a relative of Thomas Walsh, private in the 4th Cheshires, who died in South Africa. Ann Moran was similarly punished for aiding and abetting. Walsh's mother, after receiving notice of her son's death, died in the workhouse, and Roden continued to correspond with the War Office, signing herself "Mary Walsh," to which Moran attested before the local priest, to secure his signature to the papers, thus obtaining deceased's back pay.

(Evening Express, 4th December 1901)

I see that there's a Private T. Walsh, 4th Cheshires, listed in the forum name search, but not as having died. Does anyone know anything about him, please?

Hi Berenice......

This is in FMP.......

First name(s) T
Last name Walsh
Service number 7629
Rank Private
Regiment 4 Battalion The Cheshire Regiment
Other regiments/units
Unit: 4 Battalion The Cheshire Regiment, Rank: Private, Number: 7629
Memorials
Cathedral. South Transept. Tablet. Cheshire Regiment, Chester, Cheshire, England
Biography
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Event detail Died Disease on 09/06/1900 at Springfontein
Event unit 4 Battalion The Cheshire Regiment


Mike

Private Thomas Walsh [7629] - Grave at Springfontein