BORN HUNMANBY, YORKSHIRE, 1886. SON OF THOMAS AND MARY ELIZA WATSON, OF HUNMANBY AND BRIDLINGTON. SON OF A GAS WORKS LABOURER. SECOND OF FOUR SONS. HE BOARDED AT 58 RUGBY STREET, HULL. WORKED AS A RAILWAY PORTER.
ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/04/1917, AGED 31. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ETHEL BEATRICE WILLIAMSON, GUARDIAN OF HIS TWO CHILDREN, AT 11 STEVENSONS BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET, BRIDLINGTON (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE BRITISH GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY WW1 MEMORIAL, WHICH IS KEPT AT THE FAKENHAM GAS MUSEUM, NORFOLK.
First name:
THOMAS WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
33054
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/04/1917
Place died:
Wancourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
31
