Name
Kenneth Thomas
16 Oct 1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/06/1916
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
King's Royal Rifle Corps
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY
XXX. A. 7.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
CHRIST'S FAITHFUL SOLDIER AND SERVANT UNTO HIS LIFE'S END
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham
Pre War
Kenneth Thomas was the only son of Jesse Lambly Thomas and Alice (nee Layman). He was a fluent French and Malay speaker and was for a time a Planter at Bukit Mertajam, Province Wellesley, Penang, Malaya.
Biography
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs. A. Thomas, of 12, North Park, Eltham, London, ordered his headstone inscription: “CHRIST'S FAITHFUL SOLDIER AND SERVANT UNTO HIS LIFE'S END"
Lives of First World War states - Original Burial "About 1,000 yards past the Ypres-Zonnebeke and Ypres-Menin roads. "Menin Road, F.19 post, 1.5 miles east of Ypres at map ref. sh28. I.10.c.04"
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Tony James
