Name
Thomas G King
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/67145
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
2nd/4th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
VI. D. 17.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock
Pre War
Thomas King (Tom) was born in 1899 in Eversholt, nr Ampthill, Bedfordshire, the son of James or William and Anne King.
On the 1911 Census he was living in Clarks Yard, Baldock with his father (possibly grandfather) William and brother William, who was working as a farm labourer. Tom was 11 years old.
Wartime Service
He initially enlisted with the Bedfordshire Regiment as Private reg. no. 30682, later being posted to the 2nd/4th Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).
He died on 15 September 1917 and is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Additional Information
His father, William, received a war gratuity of £4 10s and pay owing totalling £1 4s 8d.
Brother to William King who died after discharge suffering from chronic pneumonia on 6 October 1917.
N.B. It has been difficult to establish the relationships of Thomas King and his brother William, partly due to the way the census form of 1911 was completed.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
