Ref ID: 5018
Name
Roll of Individuals Entitled to the Victory Medal and British War Medal.
Description
Roll of Individuals Entitled to the Victory Medal and British War Medal Granted Under Army Orders 301 and 266 of 1919 Royal Irish Rifles.
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
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Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
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Classification
Book or Journal,
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