Name
Thomas William Brooks Humphreys
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/05/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
17523
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot XVIII, Row N, Grave 18A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour
Pre War
Son of Eleanor Kate (nee HUMPHREYS) TILLEY; husband of Mary Ann (nee CORDAS) HUMPHREYS of Thurlby, Lincs.
Thomas was born 1893 in Withering, Northants [ should be Wittering, Cambs – formerly Northants?]. and baptised there 14 May 1893. He married 1916 in the Middlesbrough, Yorks, district. Mary never remarried and died 1939 in the Grantham, Lincs, district aged 50.
His mother married William TILLEY 1895 in the Stamford, Lincs, district. William died 1943 in the Bourne, Lincs, district aged 75; Kate died 17 August 1959 in Thurlby aged 91.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Oundle, Northants, with his mother, step-father and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a wheelwright apprentice aged 17, he still lived in Oundle, with his mother, step-father and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford, and was formerly 14211 Bedfordshire Regiment.
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died at 26 General Hospital, Etaples, of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Thomas in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 9 June 1917.
Unfortunately, Thomas’ Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
