Name
Thomas William Livermore
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/08/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
26035
Durham Light Infantry
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT CEMETERY
XLVI. E. 13.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
HE LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Little Hallingbury War Memorial, Essex
Pre War
Thomas’ father, born in 1851 in Bishop’s Stortford, was also known as Thomas William Livermore. He had married Mary Ann Mison on 16th May 1880 in Holy Trinity Church.
In 1881 Thomas, aged 30, and Mary Ann, aged 27, Livermore were living in Jarvis Road Nursery Terrace. Thomas occupation was given as a “carman”. They had one son, George Livermore, born in Bishop’s Stortford in 1882.
Mary Ann Mison died in 1887. Thomas William Livermore then married Sarah Grace Robinson in 1889. Sarah Grace had been born in Bishop’s Stortford in 1853. She died in late 1893, age 41.
On the 1901 Census, Thomas was now a widower. His son, George, by his first marriage, was aged 19 years and a carpenter. and older brother George at Upton Fields, Bishop's Stortford where his father was working as a General Carter. Thomas William, the son by his second marriage had been born in 1892 and was now aged eight years, was presumably at school.
In 1911 Thomas William Livermore, now a butcher’s porter aged 18 years, was living with his step-brother George in 18 Bartholomew Road, Bishop’s Stortford. George had married Harriet Georgina Day on 2nd April 1904 in Holy Trinity Church. George’s occupation was given as a carpenter and joiner. George and Harriet had three children: Elizabeth, born in 1905; Dorothy, born in 1907 and George born in 1909. Also living in the house in Bartholomew Road was Thomas Livermore, now aged 60 years, the father of George and Thomas William. His occupation was still a “car man”. He died in 1926. Thomas William, now listed as William was working as a butcher's porter.
Thomas William Livermore’s link to Little Hallingbury is found in the SDGW records (Soldiers who died in the Great War) and in his Memorial Certificate. His residence at the time of his enlistment is given as Little Hallingbury. We can only infer that he must have moved to Gaston Green, Little Hallingbury with his father and step-brother after 1911.
Wartime Service
He attested on 13 August 1914 in Hounslow and served in France with the with the Durham Light Infantry from 12 October 1915.
The 10th Battalion Durham Light Infantry was raised in Newcastle on 22nd August, as part of Kitchener’s First New Army. It was engaged in the Ypres Salient in August 1917, suffering heavy casualties fighting on the Menin Road in Inverness Copse and Glencorse Wood on 22nd August in the 3rd Battle of Ypres. It is likely that Thomas Livermore lost his life as part of this fighting.
Additional Information
His father Thomas received a war gratuity of £14 10s and pay owing of £22 3s 9d and while living at Gaston Green, Little Hallingbury, Bishop's Stortford, Herts., he ordered his headstone inscription: "HE LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME".
His step-brother, George Livermore, also fought in the Great War. He enlisted at the age of 35 in 1916. Residence: Gaston Green, Little Hallingbury. Regimental No: 177386. Regiment: Labour Corps.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Philip Hays
