Name
Thomas Brackley
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/10/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17984
Grenadier Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 5 to 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Tring War Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring, New Mill Baptist Church, Tring
Pre War
Thomas Brackley was born in 1895 in Tring, Hertfordshire, the son of James and Eliza Brackley, and one of eight children although one died in infancy. He was baptised on 2 January 1898 at Tring.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Marshcroft, Tring, where his father was working as a carter on a farm. They remained there in 1911 and Thomas was then working as a gardener domestic. His parents later lived at 14 New Mill Terrace, Tring.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London and joined the Grenadier Guards, serving in France with the 1st Battalion from 16 March 1915.
He was declared missing believed killed in action on 17 October 1915. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £4 and pay owing of £4 15s 8d. His mother received a pension of five shillings a week.
Brother to Henry (Harry) Brackley who served with the Royal Garrison Artillery and died of wounds on 24 March 1918. He is also named on the Tring Memorials.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.roll-of-honour.com
