Name
Thomas George
14 June 1881
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/12/1917
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
CH/12002
Royal Marine Light Infantry
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Navy Star, British War Medal and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BALDOCK CEMETERY
S.E. Div. Grave 297.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock
Pre War
Thomas George Ellis was born in Westminster, London on 14 June 1881 and baptised on 9 July 1882 at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, the son of George Thomas and Mary Ann Ellis. They were then living at 11 Dartmouth Street, Westminster. He was the youngest of eight children, and his mother died in February 1885 and his father the following year. His father had served with the Royal Navy as a Seaman Gunner.
On the 1901 Census he was a serving private with the Royal Marines, having enrolled on 10 January 1901 in London. He remained with the Royal Marines in 1911 and was serving on HMS London in Gibraltar.
He married Emily Louisa Field in 1913 and they had two children, George Field on 29 November 1914 and Thomas Andrew Harwood on 4 June 1917.
Wartime Service
Thomas had enlisted on 10 January 1901, joining the Royal Marines Light Infantry, and was discharged on 10 January 1913, having completed his period of limited engagement. He then re-enrolled on 11 January 1913 and, with the Chatham Battalion, took part in the Defence of Antwerp in 1914.
He was discharged on 27 July 1917 to the Tuberculosis Hospital, Ware, Herts and was awarded a Silver War Badge, No. RN 9269. He died on 4 December 1917 at his home address of 31 Clark's Lane, Baldock, from pulmonary tuberculosis, which commenced while 'on duty' and is buried in Baldock Cemetery, Herts.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £20 and a pension of £1 2s 11d a week. She continued to live at Clark's Lane, Baldock with her two sons, and on the 1921 they had a boarder, Constance Newbury, living with them and she was working as a book keeper.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
