Name
Thomas Cartwright
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/11/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
147356
Canadian Infantry
78th Bn., Manitoba Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIMY MEMORIAL
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Tring Town Memorial,
St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring
Pre War
Son of Susan (nee DOVER) and the late John CARTWRIGHT.
His parents married 13 September 1884 at Sts Peter and Paul, Tring, Herts. John died 1908 in the Hemel Hempstead, Herts, district aged 51, and was buried 19 December in Tring Cemetery. Susan with Thomas’ siblings emigrated 26 April 1912 aboard the Allen Line Virginian from Liverpool to Quebec, Canada; and she possibly died 15 May 1939 in St B [!], Manitoba.
Thomas was born 23 September 1891 in Tring, and baptised 10 December 1892 at Sts Peter and Paul, Tring. He sailed from Liverpool to St John’s, Nova Scotia, Canada, 15 December 1911 on the Canadian Pacific Line Empress of Britain, a seaman(?) aged 21.
On the 1901 Census, a scholar aged 9 he lived in Tring, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a coachman on a farm aged 19, he still lived in Tring, with his widowed mother and five siblings.
Wartime Service
He attested 2 July 1915 in Winnipeg, Manitoba: a warehouseman aged 23, 5’7½” tall, C of E, his next-of-kin his mother of Winnipeg. He was killed in action.
Additional Information
There is an article about Thomas in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 8 June 1918; plus an article in the Winnipeg Evening Tribune undated.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
