Name
Thomas Thwaites
1913
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
19/01/1942
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant.
824080
Royal Artillery
13th Battery, 7th H. A. A. Regiment.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Moascar Military Cemetery
I. C. 18.
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Aldbury WW2 Memorial Plaque
Pre War
We believe this to be the Thomas Thwaites on the Aldbury World War 2 Memorial Plaque.
Thomas Thwaites was born in late 1913, in Grewelthorpe, Yorkshire, son of John Thwaites a Farm Labourer and Hannah Thwaites (nee Jones). The eldest of their three children.
His parents were married in 1913, in the Parish of Grewelthorpe, Yorkshire.
1921 Census records Thomas aged 7, at school, living with his parents, sisters Lizzie (6) and Maggie (1) at Thwaites House, Kirkby Malzeard, Ripon, Yorks.
Thomas enlisted in 1932, aged 19, in the Royal Artillery, issued with the service No. 824080.
Wartime Service
Thomas was served with the Royal Artillery at the start of WW 2.
At the time of his death, he held the Rank of Sergeant and was serving in Egypt, with the 13th Battery, 7th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery.
Thomas died on the 19th/20th January 1942, aged 28, believed to have been from an accidental Gun Shot Wound (GSW). He was initially buried in Kantara West New War Cemetery, in July 1945 he was reburied in Moascar Military Cemetery, Egypt. Grave Ref; I. C. 18. He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
Additional Information
Thomas was awarded the 1939 – 1945 Star, Africa star and British War Medal 1939 – 1945.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
