BORN BEVERLEY 1885. THIRD SON OF ROBERT HUNSLEY (1855-1940) & LOUISA BELCHER (1854-1904), OF 43 NORWOOD GROVE BEVERLEY (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A JOINER AND CABINET MAKER. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1904. A FORMER CARPENTER. HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. SERVED WITH THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED NEAR DORIAN LAKES IN THE BALKANS. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER.
THE THREE HUNSLEY BROTHERS KILLED WERE :-
PRIVATE, FRANK HUNSLEY, 4TH LONDON REGIMENT, KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/09/1917, AGED 26. COMMEMORATED AT TYNE COT.
PRIVATE, THOMAS HUNSLEY, 2ND EAST YORKS, KILLED IN GREECE ON 16/11/1916, AGED 30. COMMEMORTED ON THE DORIAN MEMORIAL, MACEDONIA.
PRIVATE, ROBERT HUNSLEY, 1/4 NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, KILLED IN ACTION, ON 15/09/1916, AGED 29. LISTED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
Tom Hunsley was born the 14 November 1885 in Beverley, the son of Robert and Louisa Hunsley. On leaving school he was apprenticed as a joiner. In the 1911 census he is shown as carpenter with the Northeastern Railway.
Thom joined the 2nd Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment (83rd Brigade 28th Division) and served in the Balkans. He was reported missing in action on the 16 November 1916 and has no known grave but is commemorated at the Doiran Memorial in Greece. The memorial is the Battle Memorial of the British Salonika Force.
Two of his brothers, Frank and Robert were also killed in action
