Essex, England
In looking at the parish registers for West Tilbury, Essex there were a number of burials in the 1700s of soldiers from the fort which guarded the Thames. One very noticeable and sad observation was that they frequently had no names, just a note in the register saying "a soldier from the fort was buried on [date]" and sometimes followed by "another soldier was buried...."
Why did they have no names, especially since they were our soldiers?
Quite a few soldiers buried were named and with rank, so what set the others apart?
