BORN HULL 1887. SON OF SAMUEL AND SARAH ANN JOHNSON. MARRIED IN SCULCOATES, IN 1909. WIFE AGNES MARY EDWARDS & TWO DAUGHTERS LIVED AT 10 CLIFF TERRACE, GRANGE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS). A FORMER TERRITORIAL. EMPLOYED AS AN OIL MILL PRESSMAN.
ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, ON 08/09/1914. SERVED WITH THE 2ND NOTTS AND DERBY REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 20/10/1914, AGED 27. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO AGNES, HIS WIDOW, AHNES, DAUGHTER, FLORENCE, SONS, SAMUEL, THOMAS AND ADOPTED SON, FRANCIS.
COMMEMORATED ON THE: Ploegsteert Memorial, Ploegsteert, Arrondissement de Mouscron, Hainaut, Belgium
First name:
THOMAS JAMES
Military Number:
9436
Rank:
Private
Date Died
20/10/1914
Place died:
Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Age:
27
10 CLIFF TERRACE, GRANGE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
