Private 16218 Thomas Corwell
Regiment/Unit: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 11th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Theatre of War First Served: (1) France
Date Entered Therein: 28/08/1915
Age at death: 20
Date of death: 4th of February 1916
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Burial / Memorial: Sailly-Sur-La-Lys Canadian Cemetery - II. G. 171.
Family details:
Son of Jonathan and Mary Alice Corwell, of 268, Derby Road, Birdholme, Chesterfield. Parents are legatees.
Census details:
1901 - Shows 5 years old Thomas living at 67 Waterdale Crescent, Sutton, St Helens with his parents Jonathan (30), Mary A (28) and two brothers Charles Edward (7), Jonathan (1). 1911 - Sees 15 years old 'Turner in Steel Tube Works' Thomas living at 163 Derby Road, Chesterfield with his parents Jonathan (40), Mary A (38) and seven siblings: Charles (17), Jonathan (11), Edward (9), George (8), Ada (5), Earnest (3), Harry (1).
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=1]Remembered on All Saints War Memorial, Sutton, St Helens[/url]
[url=lmem.php?lmem=1]Remembered on All Saints War Memorial, Sutton, St Helens[/url]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/16218ThomasCorwell.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
[pic]imgs/sppics/T_Corwell_NandD.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private Thomas Corwell at Sailly-Sur-La-Lys Canadian Cemetery
(Photograph courtesy of R Houghton)[/caption]
