World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Thomas Thew
Forename(s):
Thomas
Surname:
Thew
Initial(s):
T
Service Number:
10394
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Durham Light Infantry, 11th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), 'D' Company
Died:
12/06/1918
Aged:
30
Buried:
Roye New British Cemetery
Service History:
Enlisted at Durham City, County Durham.
Died of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Background:
Born in 1888, at Durham City, County Durham, the son of Edward Thew (a Foreman at a Laundry), by his wife, Elizabeth (née Archer) Thew.
Thew's occupation was a Road Goods Guard for North East Railway.
In 1901 he lived with his uncle, Luke Thew, at 7, Pit Row, Old Elvet, Durham, along with his sister, Elizabeth, & brother, Luke. In 1911 he lived at 1, Chapel Passage, Old Elvet, Durham.
When he was 23, on 29 June 1912, Thew married Mary Ann Gates, of 14, Fry Street, Durham at Durham Registry Office. Mary Ann remarried after his death. CWGC lists her as Mary Ann Cox (formerly Thew), of 99, Fairview Road, Stamford Hill, London.
N.B. The connection with Warkworth is uncertain but a family named Thew lived on The Butts in 1918.
(Source: 'Portraits of War...'; Edited & compiled by June Watson; Wildgoose Press; 2016; p. 85)
Local Memorial:
Warkworth War Memorial, by St Lawrence's Church