When Thomas Platt was born in February 1883, in Crompton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edmund Platt, was 45 and his mother, Sarah Ann Chadwick, was 41. He married Jane Elizabeth Osborne Pearce on 17 June 1953. He lived in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1911.
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The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
English: Middle English plat, platte ‘flat surface’ (Anglo-Norman French plat, plast), often with the senses ‘footbridge’ or ‘plot of land’. The name may be topographic, for one who lived near such a feature, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Platt in Manchester or Platt Bridge in Wigan (both Lancashire).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German platt ‘flat’.
German: variant of Platte 3.
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