Name
Thomas Nowell Askwith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/10/1917
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Field Artillery
C Bty, 250th Bde
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BLEUET FARM CEMETERY
II. A. 27
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 27 Dec 1879 and baptised on 4 Apr 1880 in Islington, London son of Thomas and Maria Eugenie Askwith.
Educated at Haileybury College 1894-97. He married Ruby Isabel Garrett in 1910 and they lived in Cheam, Surrey. He was a life assurance clerk.
Address later given as Sleningford, Hillside Road, St Albans.
Wartime Service
Formerly enlisted Private 8562 Inns of Court O.T.C. he obtained a commission as 2nd Lieutenant R.F.A. and entered France on 16 Jan 1917. He was killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour, Gareth Hughes
