Name
Thomas Edwin Scales
14/05/1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/03/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25440
Northamptonshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
IV. E. 15.
France
Headstone Inscription
"HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP"
UK & Other Memorials
London Colney Village Memorial, Napsbury Mental Hospital & Staff Memorial, Napsbury (now in London Colney)
Pre War
Thomas Edwin SCALES was born in London Colney, Hertfordshire, on 14th May 1888, son of David William Scales a Blacksmiths Labourer and Constance Marion Fean Scales (nee Matthews). One of their 4 children. They were married on 26th December 1885 in St Albans, Herts.
Thomas was Baptised on 1st July 1888, in the Parish of Colney- St Peters, Herts.
1901 Census records Thomas aged 12, his father David, sister Evelyn (14), brothers George William (10) and Oliver Stanley (8), are living with his Grand-Parents, David and Emma Scales, at 18 Main Road, London Colney, Herts.
In May 1902, his father David divorced his mother Constance on the grounds of her bigamist marriage to Benjamin Ellington in November 1899.
1911 Census, Thomas (22) is recorded as single, employed as a Butcher, still living with his Grand-Parents, in Mullingar Terrace, London Colney, Herts. Sister Evelyn and brother George are also still living with their Grand-Parents.
Thomas married Maud Francis on 2nd August 1915, in London Colney, Herts. They had no children.
Worked at the Napsbury Mental Hospital.
Wartime Service
Thomas enlisted at St Albans, Herts, posted to the Northamptonshire Regiment and issued with the service number 25440. On completion of his training, he was sent to the Western Front. He died on 6th March 1917, aged 28, of wounds received in action. He is buried in Peronne Road Cemetery, Mericourt, France. Grave Ref: IV. E. 15.
Additional Information
Maud received a widow’s pension of 13/9, a week from 1st October 1917, and his effects of £1-09s-11d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3.
His Headstone inscription “HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP” was request by his widow Maud.
Maud remarried in October 1917, to Thomas Henry Parsons. They lived at 6 Boundary Road, St Albans, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
