Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookin the Rifle Brigade, 11 Sept. 1914; went to France, March, 1915, and was killed in action at Fromelles, 9 May, 1915. Corpl. Leigh Knight wrote: "I was your son's section commander, and am very sorry to have to tell you that I myself saw him fall. He was a good soldier, and when we charged he went forward very gallantly. He was killed by a German shell, and it was practically instantaneous death"; and Rifleman E. Allen wrote: "On 9 May we made an attack on Fromelles, where I saw your son carrying a machine-gun into action. I could not say whether he was killed, but I saw him go under, when I was wounded." [Illustration: =Morris Marcus van Thal.=] =THEOBALD, WILLIAM GEORGE MORLEY=, Private, No. 792, No. 2 Coy. 14th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of George Theobald, of Littleport, Cambs, Superintendent of Fen Drainage, Littleport, and Downham District, by his wife, Hannah Jackson, dau. of James Hardwick, of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia; _b._ Little Downham, Isle of Ely, 12 Nov. 1894; educ. March (Cambs.) Grammar School; joined the Cambridgeshire Territorials in 1913; went to Australia, 18 April, 1914, and when war broke out volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force at the end of Oct., 1914; left Melbourne for Egypt with the 2nd Reinforcements, 23 Dec. 1914; took part in the landing at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at 10 the same morning while out sniping with four others. He was _unm._ A comrade wrote: "He was not out long before he was shot, but he did some good work before he was hit." Another comrade wrote: "Every one of us was grieved when poor Tommy was killed, for all were agreed that Tommy was a gentleman." [Illustration: =William G. M. Theobald.=] =THICK, JOHN CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12173, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =THOMAS, ANDREW READ=, Chief Armourer, 340547, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =THOMAS, AUBREY JOCELYN NUGENT=, Capt., 1st Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, elder _s._ of Jocelyn H. W. Thomas, of Belmont, Carlow, Ireland, formerly Capt., Scots Fusiliers Guards; _b._ Belmont, co. Carlow, 23 Sept. 1888; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Lancashire Fusiliers, 16 Aug. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 29 May, 1909, and Capt. 20 Jan. 1915; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action during the landing of the Lancashire Fusiliers at Beach W., Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915; _unm._ =THOMAS, CHARLES HERBERT=, Capt., 2nd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., only child of Howard Thomas, of 10, Westminster Palace Gardens, S.W., by his wife, Ethel, dau. of the late William Baker, of Sneyd Park, Bristol, and grandson of the late Charles Thomas, of Stoke Bishop, Bristol, J.P., D.L.; _b._ Charlton, Henbury, co. Gloucester, 25 April, 1880; educ. at Clifton; Abbotsholme, and Edinburgh University; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Somerset L.I., 21 April, 1900, from the militia, and promoted Lieut. 16 Dec. 1901, and Capt. 8 Jan. 1909. He served in the South African War, 1899-1901, with the Somerset L.I., receiving the Queen's medal with clasp, and in Feb. 1901, was transferred to the South Staffordshire Regt. then in India; was on leave, 1904-05; at Depôt, Lichfield, 1906-08, and in South Africa 1908-1911, where, in 1909, he was given the command of the Mounted Infantry Coy. of his Regt. then at Harrismith, and returned to Lichfield in 1911. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 11 Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne; was severely wounded in action near Ypres, 27 Oct., and died at the Hotel Crystal Hospital, Boulogne, 5 Nov. 1914. He was buried in the English quarter of the cemetery there. Capt. Thomas was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 18 Feb. 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field, and his Col. wrote: "I had hoped that your gallant and beloved son might have been the recipient of our most coveted decoration on the strength of my recommendation." He was an expert horseman and a keen polo player. He _m._ at Winsford, Exmoor, 4 June, 1912, Dorothy Catherine, only dau. of Philip Everard, of Miltons, Dulverton, co. Somerset, and had issue a son, Charles Richard, _b._ 15 June, 1913. [Illustration: =Charles Herbert Thomas.=] =THOMAS, EDWARD THOMAS=, Rifleman, No. 9867, 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, eldest _s._ of John Thomas, Shearer, Raglan Bays Works, Briton Ferry, by his wife, Susanah, dau. of David Hopkins; _b._ Pontarddulais, co. Glamorgan, 2 Feb. 1884; educ. Hammanford; was employed at Port Talbot; enlisted in the Rifle Brigade, 5 May, 1903; served three years with the Colours; and then joined the Reserve; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914; went to France in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 23 Oct. 1914. Buried near Chapelle d'Armentières. He was a member of the Silver Band, Briton Ferry. He _m._ at Neath, 6 March, 1909, Catherine (Lowther Street, Briton Ferry, Glamorgan), dau. of David Hopkins, and had four children: Thomas Ivor Gwyn, _b._ 18 Dec. 1913; Edward Ypres, _b._ (posthumous), 16 April, 1915; Jane Ellen, _b._ 9 Jan. 1910; and Mary Catherine, _b._ 27 April, 1911. =THOMAS, JOHN ARLOE EDWARD=, Leading Carpenter's Crew, 345555, H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Charles Thomas, of 17, St. Thomas Green, Haverfordwest; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =THOMAS, JOHN BAKER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9863), S.S. 106671, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =THOMAS, MAURICE=, Private, No. 1715, 1/4th (Service) Battn. the Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the late Thomas Henry Thomas, of Worthing, by his wife, Ellen (11, Stanhope Road, Worthing), dau. of William Knight, of Washington, Sussex; _b._ Worthing, co. Sussex, 4 April, 1897; educ. St. Andrew's Higher Grade School there, and on leaving became a messenger boy at the Worthing G.P.O. and had passed his examinations for the staff when war broke out. He had joined the Royal Sussex Territorials, 14 Aug. 1913; was called up 4 Aug. 1914, and volunteered for foreign service, and left England for the Dardanelles in July, 1915. He was attd. to the machine-gun section of his battn., landed at Suvla Bay, 8 Aug. and was killed in action there four days later, 12 Aug. 1915, as his battn. was retiring after being relieved from the front trenches. The Turks opened a heavy machine-gun fire on them, and he was hit and killed almost immediately. He was buried where he fell at Anafarta Sagir, 1.20-000-105H, near Track to Chocolate Hill between 4-7 p.m. He was a prominent member of the Holy Trinity Church Lads' Naval Brigade. [Illustration: =Maurice Thomas.=] =THOMAS, PHILLIP PERCIVAL=, A.B., 231687, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =THOMAS, THOMAS JAMES=, Petty Officer, 2nd C |