Name | Thomas Aiston |
Service number | 18/8 |
Rank – including any promotions, with dates | Private |
Regiment | Durham Light Infantry |
Battalion | 18th |
Unit | |
Postings | Home 05/09/1914 – 05/12/1915 Mediterranean ( Egypt) 06/12/1915 – 04/03/1916 France 05/03/1916 – 11/12/1917 Home 12/12/1917 – 02/04/1918 France 03/04/1918 – 23/04/1918 |
Wounds | |
Silver War Badge? (WWI) | |
PoW Info. Etc. | |
Date of Discharge | |
Other Information |
Birthplace | Darlington |
Date of birth | 1893 |
Enlisted | Attested 05/09/1914 – Enlisted Cockerton Hill, Darlington 28/09/1914 |
Lived | 8 Station Road, Darlington |
Parents | Francis and Elizabeth Aiston |
+ address | 8 Station Road, Darlington |
Wife | |
+ address | |
Children | |
Occupation | Moulder – Darlington Forge Co Ltd |
Medals – held in collection Citations | 1914/1918 Victory Medal |
Medals – others awarded but not held in collection | Victory Medal; British War Medal; 1914/15 Star |
Citations/Notes |
How died – not known, at home, of wounds, killed in action | Killed in Action |
Date of death | 23/04/1918 |
Age | 24 |
Memorial | Listed on the Darlington War Memorial Hospital, Hollyhurst Road, Darlington On South Wall, St Lukes Church, Darlington ( Possibly destroyed) DLI Memorial Chapel, Durham Cathedral |
Cemetery – plot, row and grave | Morbecque British Cemetery; Nord Pas De Calais; France |
Thomas was the 7th of eight children, 6 girls and two boys
Thomas listed his youngest sister Evelyn as his sole beneficiary. He left £5.14.5d plus £17 awarded to his family ( Both parents are now deceased)
According to his attestation papers he was 5’7” tall, 126 lbs; had a fair complexion, grey eyes and light brown hair.
Looking at his attention papers, there seems to have been some confusion with the army, he is sent home to be discharged and to return to the munitions factory, papers appear to have gone missing, and he is sent to the medical board – this states he has no disability and eligible on medical grounds for transfer to Class W reserve. “He was sufficiently robust to earn a normal days wage of the work he is going to take up”.
This is quite sad, Looking through his attestation papers, there seems to have been a mix up with army paper work, he was sent home to work in the munitions factory but got sent back to France only to be killed 20 days later.
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