BORN HULL 1899. SON OF JOHN & MARY JANE TOWLE, OF 23 POPLAR AVENUE, POPLAR STREET, (OFF CHAPMAN STREET), HULL. SON OF A FLOUR MILL LABOURER. THIRD OF FOUR SONS. BROTHERS, EDWARD, ARTHUR & HARRY TOWLE. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/8TH LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/03/1918, AGED 19.
BURIED AT ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE.
HIS BROTHER, JOHN EDWARD TOWLE, WAS A SHOP ASSITANT. ENLISTED ON 30/09/1914, AND SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HIS WIFE SOPHIA, LIVED AT 3 RAILWAY COTTAGES, SUTTON BANK, HULL.
First name:
THOMAS
Regiment:
Military Number:
50603
Rank:
Private
Date Died
25/03/1918
Place died:
ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE
Age:
19
23 POPLAR AVENUE, POPLAR STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
