Name
Thomas Claydon
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/08/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
165572 (*1)
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
101st Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 154 to 159 and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
Only son of George and Elizabeth Claydon, of The Gables, Butler's Cross, Princes Risboro,' Bucks Served three and a half years in the East with the Royal Bucks Hussars.
Recorded as born in Ellesborough, Bucks, and enlisted in Aylesbury while living Tring, Bucks(sic)(*2)
Wartime Service
Killed in Action
Additional Information
Formerly 1130. R Bucks Hussars
*1 The SDITGW records his service number as 465572. However, both regiments and the date of death confirms they are the same man.
*2 His connection to Tring is perhaps unproven as the only connection found is the SDITGW recording him living in Tring, Bucks., - Tring is in Hertfordshire and no Tring has been found in Bucks.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
