Name
Thomas Lavender Seabrook
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
45724
Royal Field Artillery
A Bty. 103rd Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
STRUMA MILITARY CEMETERY
VI. A. 5.
Greece
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Abbots Langley memorials
Biography
Thomas Seabrook was born in 1889 at Burnt Oak. He was one of fifteen children (seven sons and eight daughters) born to John Seabrook and his two wives. Thomas’ brother George also served in the War. At the time of the1891 Census the family lived at St Albans Yard, High Street, Edgware, where John worked as a Greengrocer. The family were listed at this address in the 1901 and 1911 Census, but by 1911 Thomas had joined the Army and was recorded in India serving as a Gunner with the Royal Field Artillery.
Thomas was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in May 1915. Although it has not been confirmed that he ever lived in Abbots Langley, many members of the Seabrook family lived in the local area, and it was probably through them that Thomas was listed in the Parish Roll of Honour.
Thomas died of dysentery on 15th July 1916 whilst serving in Salonika with 103 Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery. He died on the same day as James Oliver from Railway Terrace, Abbots Langley was killed in action.
Thomas was recorded on the Abbots Langley War Memorial, and was buried in the Struma Military Cemetery in Salonika.
The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine in December 1916, made a short, and factually incorrect reference to Thomas’ death identifying his death being in October, and not July 1916.
“Thomas Lavender Seabrook died of dysentery in Salonica in October (sic)”.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
