Private 4707 Thomas Edwin Eaton

The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser
Courtesy Ste M

Regiment/Unit: South Lancashire Regiment - 1st/5th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders

Age at death: 24
Date of death: 5th of October 1916 (Thursday)
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery - IV. G. 15.

Family details:
Son of Job and Jane Eaton, of St. Helen's, Lancs.

Census details:
1901 - 9 years old Thomas Edwin is living at 3 Sidney Street, St Helens with parents Job (44), Jane (41) and eight siblings: Samuel (21), William (19), Rebecca (17), Martha J (14), Joseph (11), John (3), Ethel (2), Maud (7 Mths). 1911 - Sees 19 years old 'Glass Cutter' Thomas Edwin still living at 3, Sidney Street, Newtown, St Helens with parents Job (55), Jane (53) and ten siblings: Samuel (31), William (29), Rebecca (27), Martha J (24), Joseph (21), John (13), Ethel (12), Maud (10), Albert (7), Harry (4). Surname spelled as 'Heaton' in the 1911 census.

Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=20]Remembered on St John the Evangelist, Ravenhead War Memorial[/url]

"The lady in the photo was my grandmother Ellen, who was engaged to Thomas, but when he died she married his brother Samuel. Samuel named one of his sons Thomas in memory of his brother [my dad]. My dad named me Edwin after his uncle Thomas. My sons middle name is also Thomas Edwin. So his memory still lives on". Edwin Eaton, Grandson of Thomas Edwin Heaton. [pic]imgs/sppics/Eaton_TE.jpg[/pic] [caption]Photoe is Courtesy of Edwin Heaton the Grandson of Thomas Edwin Heaton[/caption] [pic]imgs/sppics/Eaton_Thomas_Edwin.jpg[/pic] [pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/Thomas_Edwin_Eaton_SLR_zps02f39a24.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private Thomas Edwin Eaton at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery (Photograph courtesy of Frederik Sohier)[/caption]