H.+THOMAS

__Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914 - 1919__

Thomas, Harry, Lance Corporal, 12503, 9th Bn, Notts & Derby Regiment Born Norton in Hales, Salop Enlisted Derby Resided Cirencester, Glos Killed in action Gallipoli 21st August 1915

__Commonwealth War Graves Commission__ (www.cwgc.org)

Aged 20 Son of Benjamin and Hannah Thomas, of Lyneham, Chippenham, Wilts Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey, Panel 150 to 152

__Ashbourne News, 8th October 1915__

Brief mention is made of Harry Thomas in a column headed ‘Casualties to Osmaston-by-Ashbourne Soldiers’. States that he was a private, and that he died in the Dardanelles whilst serving with the Notts & Derby Regiment, although the date of late September 1915 is given. The man above, however, is the only H. Thomas to have died at Gallipoli with the Notts & Derby Regiment. He was employed at the Osmaston Manor Gardens