Thomas White

Title

Thomas White

Description

Thomas White was born in 1884 in Stow-on-the-Wold. He was the son of Thomas White and Edith Rhoda Timms. Thomas White senior was a coachman and he and his wife came from Buckinghamshire. Not much is known of his early life but on 26 April 1908 he married Alice Wright in Oakridge and his occupation was listed as a moulder. Alice's brother Henry was killed in action in 1916. In 1911 Alice was living with her parents in Oakridge Lynch with her two daughters Alice and Daisy.

Thomas joined the 11th (Reserve) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment in Stow-on-the-Wold which went to Seaford in Sussex during September 1915. He passed away as a result of cystitis and uraemia at the Military Hospital in East Blatchington, Seaford on 12 May 1916.

His body is buried in Seaford Cemetery.

Source

Oakridge History Group

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Thomas White's Grave at Seaford Cemetery

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Citation

“Thomas White,” Oakridge Archives, accessed May 5, 2024, https://oakridgearchives.omeka.net/items/show/180.

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