Name
Thomas John Fouldes
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/06/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Field Artillery
A Bty. 114th Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KARASOULI MILITARY CEMETERY
A. 5.
Greece
Headstone Inscription
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS AMAVIMUS,AMAMUS,AMABIMUS
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden, High St. Methodist Church Memorial, Harpenden
Pre War
Thomas John was born in 1892 in Tottenham, London, the only son of John Fouldes, a diamond merchant, and Mary Ann (nee Staples) who lived in Douglas Road, Harpenden.
Thomas worked in his father’s business. In 1917 Thomas married Lydia Washington Gray in Harpenden, 1917.
Wartime Service
Thomas enlisted as Private 350 in the Royal Fusiliers but was later commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery on 4 Dec 1914, Lieutenant on 1 Jan 1916 and Captain 1917.
Thomas was killed in action on 25 Jun 1917 while serving with A Battery 114 Brigade RFA . He was Mentioned in Despatches.
Additional Information
His wife, Mrs L W. Fouldes, Bencleugh, Harpenden, Herts. ordered his headstone: "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS AMAVIMUS,AMAMUS,AMABIMUS". War Gratuity of £5 and arrears of £190.5s 9d, also probate of £4804 9s 2d paid to his widow and his father. His widow also received a gratuity of £250.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
