World War 1
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Thomas Knox Lockey
Forename(s):
Thomas Knox
Surname:
Lockey
Initial(s):
T K
Service Number:
34642
Rank:
Lance-Corporal
Regiment:
Northumberland Fusiliers, 9th (Service) Battalion (1st Northumberland Hussars Yeomanry)
Died:
21/03/1918
Buried:
Arras Memorial (Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery)
(N.B. 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18'; Part 4; Page 118; records Lockey as having been buried west of St. Leger)
Service History:
Enlisted at Alnwick, Northumberland.
Lockey served with the Expeditionary Force in France & Flanders from 20 April, 1915 before he was killed in action on 21 March, 1918.
(Source: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18'; Part 4; Page 113)
Background:
Born 11 November 1894, at Alnwick, Northumberland, the second son of the late William Lockey (who served with the Border Regiment) & his wife, Margaret (daughter of John & Ellen Wardle), of 45, Lisburn Street, Alnwick.
Educated at Alnwick.
Pre-war occupation: Slater.
Ancestry.co.uk has three records for him. That for the UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 shows his regimental number as 24642 but the Register itself shows the correct regimental number, 34642.
(Source: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18'; Part 4; Page 113)
Local Memorial:
Alnwick War Memorial
