Gunner 190822 Thomas Makin

Family details:
Son of William and Agnes Makin, of Mount Pleasant, Billinge, nr. Wigan.

Census details:
1891 - Thomas 2 months was living with his parents William 33, Agnes 34 and siblings Mary 9, James 7, Jane 5 and Annie 2 at Mount Pleasant Farm, Winstanley 1901 - Thomas 10 is living with his parents William 43, Agnes 44 and siblings James 17, Jane 15, Annie 12, Catherine E 8, May 4, Constance 2 and George M 10 months living at 2 (Mount Pleasant), Upholland Road, Winstanley 1911 - Thomas 20 a Farmers Son is living with his parents William 53, Agnes 54 and siblings Jane 25, Catherine E 18, Agnes May 14, Constance 12 and George 10 at Mount Pleasant, Upholland Road, Winstanley nr Wigan

Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=39]Remembered On The St. Aidan's C of E Church Memorial[/url]

Thomas was born on the 28th of January 1891 the son of William and Agnes Makin of 1 Wigan Road, Billinge (Mount Pleasant Farm), and was baptised on the 22nd of March 1891 at St. Aidan`s C.E. Church. William Makin was a farmer and a churchwarden. Thomas enlisted at St. Helens early in 1917 to join the Royal Field Artillery He died of wounds in France on Thursday the 18th of April 1918 aged 27 years. He is buried in the Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery, Averdoingt, Pas de Calais, France, grave 1.A.2. His name is recorded on St. Aidan`s Church Memorial and on the family grave headstone in St. Aidan`s Churchyard, grave 5/25. Sources:- St. Helens Local History Library, Soldiers killed in the Great War; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; St. Aidan`s Church Registers; St. Aidan`s Parish Magazine, April 1917 and May 1918. [url=http://sthelens-connect.net/sitefiles/billinge-history.pdf]Information Courtesy of The Billinge History Society[/url] [pic]tpics/190822_Makin.JPG[/pic] [pic]tpics/190822_Makin_2.jpg[/pic] [caption]An Inscription on the family gravestone in St.Aiden's Churchyard, Billinge. (Image Courtesy of Jeff Keenan)[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/MakinT_RFA.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Gunner Thomas Makin at Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery, Averdoingt (Photograph Courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]