Ref ID: 2276
Name
Thomas Seeds.
Description
Belfast Telegraph Newspaper Photograph of Private Thomas Seeds
Life Story
Name: Thomas Seeds.
Service Number: 3507.
Rank: Private.
Battalion: 1st Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Born: Downpatrick, County Down.
Died: 21st August 1915.
Address: 13 Crosby Street, Shankill Road, Belfast.
Ulster Volunteer Thomas Seeds, son of Mr John and Martha Seeds, lived at 13 Crosby Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
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Thomas signed the Ulster Covenant on the 28th of September 1912, Ulster Day.
He was a member of the West Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force.
Thomas joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
He was posted as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on the 24th of May 1915.
Thomas Seeds was a Private in B Company, 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was Killed on the 21st of August 1915 aged 17 years.
A local Newspaper states.
Mrs Seeds of 13 Crosby Street, has received notification that her grandson has been wounded at the Dardanelles, and she will be thankful if any comrades could give some further news of him. He was a member of the West Belfast Regiment U.V.F prior to enlisting he was employed at the Queens Island, and is 17 years of age.
He received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914-1915 Star.
He is Remembered at Helles Memorial, Turkey.
To Remember Is To Honour
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Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
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Classification
Newspaper,
Photograph,
Photograph
