Name
Joseph Thomas
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/02/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Saddler Corporal
TS/5472
Army Service Corps
209th Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SALONIKA (LEMBET ROAD) MILITARY CEMETERY
794.
Greece
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Individual memorial in St Mary the Virgin Church, Therfield
Pre War
Born in 1886 in Islington, London son of William John and Hannah Thomas. He married Edith Maud Watson, of The Bank, Therfield, Royston, Herts. on 12 Sep 1909 in Islington. They were living in 20 Cromer Street, Gray’s Inn Road, Islington in 1911 with one daughter. He worked as a carman.
He was employed by I Beer & Sons Smithfield E C.
His wife was the daughter of James and Jane Watson. She had five brother who served, two of whom, Ernest and Frederick died
Wartime Service
His memorial plaque records that he “Served with distinction in the Auxiliary Horse Transport, Salonica". He died after a severe illness in Greece.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jean Handley
