Name
Thomas George Cheney
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
81148
Canadian Infantry
8th Bn., Manitoba Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Plot I, Row O, Grave 17.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St James' Church Memorial, Watford Fields
Pre War
Son of Thomas and Sarah Kate (nee POCOCK) CHENEY of Watford.
His parents married 15 September 1887 at St Mary’s, Northchurch, Herts. Thomas died 1923 in Watford aged 58, and was buried 7 July in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Sarah died 1944 in the Hemel Hempstead, Herts, district aged 79.
Thomas was born 12 January 1894 in Watford. He attended first Sotheron Road Infants’ School, Watford; then Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 14 January 1901 to 7 January 1908.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Watford, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, a shop assistant aged 17, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and four siblings.
Wartime Service
He attested 22 December 1914 in Winnipeg, Manitoba: a poulterer aged 22, unmarried, 5’10” tall, C of E; his next-of-kin was his father of Watford. He died at No. 3 Canadian Field Ambulance 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 14 October 1916; plus an In Memoriam in the issue dated 29 September 1917. His brother William died 18 September 1918 and also features on Watford Borough Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
