Name
Thomas Player
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1917
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
M2/031703
Army Service Corps
648th Mechanical Transport Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MOROGORO CEMETERY
III. B. 1.
Tanzania
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial,
St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware,
Christchurch Memorial, Ware,
Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans,
Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans
Pre War
Born in 1881 in Widbury Hill Cottages, Ware, Hertfordshire son of Thomas and Amelia Player. He was living and working as a groom in Eccleston Mews, London in 1901.
He married Florence M. in 1909 and they lived in 97 Eaton Mews North, Eaton Square, Chelsea in 1911 and working as a domestic chauffeur.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at London killed in action and first buried in Mikesse, Tanzania and then moved to Morogoro.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
