BORN HULL 1894. SON OF FRANCIS JOHN & ADA HULL.HIS FATHER ABANDONED HIS MOTHER WHEN HE WAS BORN AND HE LIVED AT 33 CHILTERN STREET, HULL, WITH HIS MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER AND SISTER GERTRUDE. HE WAS NEARLY 6 FOOT TALL, OF GOOD BUILD AND WORKED AS A LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 27/11/1914. SERVED IN EGYPT. ARRIVED FRANCE ON 08/03/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 22. HIS MOTHER DIED IN JANUARY 1917 AND HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS GRANDMOTHER, ANN ELIZABETH MUMBY.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HE IS ALSO COMMEMORATED ON ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH MEMORIAL, NEWINGTON, HULL.
First name:
THOMAS
Regiment:
Military Number:
13/856
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
22
