Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE THOMAS WILLIAM EASTWOOD 11/1327. Born in 1876, Thomas was the fifth of six children to John and Sarah Eastwood. A Painter by trade he married Isabella Johnson in St James’s Church, Hull on 11th June 1899 and the couple lived at 3 Anne’s Place, James Street in the city with their five children Edith, Annie, William, Lilian and Florence. When war came he enlisted at City Hall on 21st December 1914 joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. Thomas served in all the Pal’s major campaigns from Egypt and the Somme to Oppy Wood and the Spring Offensive, and he came through them all unscathed. What killed him in the end was the same thing which took his daughter Annie in May 1917- disease. Annie died of pneumonia, Thomas died of “Spanish Flu”. He is buried in Teclinthun British Cemetery; he was 42 years old.
Eastwood, Thomas William
First name:
THOMAS WILLIAM
Military Number:
11/1327
Rank:
Private
Date Died
02/11/1918
Place died:
Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
42
2 JANE TERRACE, JANE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
