Private 120128 Thomas Ingham Smith
Regiment/Unit: Machine Gun Corps - 55th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Previous Reg/Num: 64457, Ches Regt.
Age at death: 31
Date of death: 9th of April 1918
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: Warrington, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Brown`s Road Military Cemetery Festubert - VII. F. 15.
Census details:
1891 - 5 years ls Thomas s living at 143 back Chancery Lane, Parr, St Helens with parents Samuel (36), Annie (35) and three siblings: Charlotte (16), Mary E (7), Samuel (2). Also at the address is Samuel seniors widowed mother Ellen Smith (58). 1901 - 15 years old 'Labourer' Thomas is living at 297 Thelwall Lane, Warrington with parents Samuel (43), Annie (43) and five siblings: W Faithhurst Smith 24), Eliza M (17), Samuel (11), Sarah A (7), Charles F (3). 1911 - Sees 24 years old 'General Labourer' Thomas, parents Samuel (55), Annie (54) and siblings Sarah (17), Charles (13) are living at 65 Thelwall Lane, Latchford, Warrington with widowed sister Harriet Tasker (30) and her two children Thomas Ephram Tasker (7), Edith Tasker (5). Shown as 'Tom Smith' in the 1911 census.
[pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/TI_Smith_MGC.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private Thomas Ingham Smith at
Brown's Road Military Cemetery, Festubert
(Photo courtesy of Margaret Dufay)[/caption]
