Excerpt from diaries kept throughout the war.

Also killed on 10th July, while serving with 8th Yorkshires in their attack on Contalmaison, had been Sgt. John Thomas (Tom) Limmer; he was the elder brother of Tunstill’s recruit Pte.  Walter Limmer. It seems probable that Walter was able to seek out news of his brother whilst both 8thYorkshires and 10DWR were in occupation of, or close to, Contalmaison. So it was that Walter was given the news by two of the sergeants who had served with his brother. In a letter home Walter told his mother, "they both told me that he was quite well and cheerful up to the time he was killed, and that he did not suffer at all; he was killed outright, the bullet going right through his heart." Tom left a widow and one child. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

David Limmer