Ref ID: 5012
Name
Thomas Woods.
Description
Belfast Telegraph Newspaper Photograph of Rifleman Thomas Woods.
Life Story
Name: Thomas Woods.
Service Number: 7787.
Rank: Rifleman.
Battalion: 2nd Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles.
Born: Belfast.
Died: 25th October 1914.
Address: 19 James Street
.
Thomas Woods, son of Thomas Woods Snr, lived with his wife at 19 James Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
.
Thomas had married Elizabeth Woods, Nee McCauley, on the 3rd of May 1914 within Holy Trinity Church Belfast
.
Thomas joined the Royal Irish Rilfes.
He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the13th of August 1914.
Thomas was a Rifleman in 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rilfes when he was Killed In Action at Neuve Chapelle, France on the 25th October 1914
.
A local newspaper states.
Mrs Woods 19 James Street, Belfast, has been notified that her husband, Rifleman T Woods, 2nd Battalion R.I.R, was killed in action on the 25th October. A brother in law of the deceased, First Class Stoker David Bell, was lost in the Hawke Disaster
.
This shows that Elizabeth and her sister Annie both lost their husbands within the same month
.
Thomas Soldiers Effects were left to his wife.
A Dependant Pension Application Form shows his wife Elizabeth Bartlett, now remarried and living in Canada as claimant
.
Thomas received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star
.
He is Remembered at Le Touret Memorial, France.
To Remember Is To Honour
.
Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
1914
Classification
Newspaper, Photograph, - Belfast Telegraph
