Born Wilberfoss, East Riding, 1895. Son of Fletcher and Alice Gray, of Wilberfoss, Yorkshire, England. An Apprentice (bricklayer). Described as 5 foot, 5.5 inches tall, 33.5- 35.5 inch chest, 117 lbs weight. He had one brother, called George Cecil Gray.
He enlisted at Beverley, on 17/05/1917. Posted to France, on 06/10/1917. Served in the 4th North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s) Regiment. Killed in action, on 26/03/1918, aged 23. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial to the missing on the Somme. His army effects were left to his father, Fletcher Gray.
He is also remembered on the Wilberfoss WW1 Memorial.
First name:
THOMAS WILLIAM
Military Number:
48520
Rank:
Private
Date Died
26/03/1918
Place died:
POZIERES MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE
Age:
23
