Name
Thomas William Birt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/09/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
23
London Regiment *1
5th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9D
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Goff's Oak Memorial, Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
If this is the correct soldier, he was born Blofield, Norfolk about 1890, the younger of two children of Henry and Ann.
In 1901 the family had moved to High Road, Wormley, his father was a gardener and his mother a laundress. By 1911, he was now living with his widowed mother in Beaumont, Wormley and he was employed as a stockman.
Wartime Service
He went to France 5th November 1914.
Additional Information
CWGC shows only one soldier named Birt. He is named as William Thomas and his parents living in Sussex. Soldiers died on Ancestry shows William Thomas Birt as being born in Camberwell and living in Peckham. There is no Thomas William Birt shown.
*1 More correctly London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade).
Acknowledgments
Brian Lodge
