Name
Thomas Edwin Glasscock
1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/10/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/81035
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
2nd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 28 to 30 and 162 to 162A and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial,
St Michael's Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Thomas Edwin Glasscock was born in 1878 in Bishop's Stortford to Edwin and Sarah Glasscock. They lived on the Hadham Road in 1881 and 1891. He married Edith Dickerson in 1906 at Bishop's Stortford. On the 1911 Census he was living with his wife Edith and child, Marjorie, at 41 Hadham Road, Bishop's Stortford and working as a house painter.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Bishop's Stortford and served in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.
He was killed in action during the Battle of Poelcappelle, Belgium. The weather and ground conditions were dreadful and his body was never recovered.
Additional Information
His widow, Edith, received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £3 3s 6d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
