ATTWOOD Thomas

  • First Name(s):
    Thomas 
  • Surname:
    ATTWOOD
  • Service Number:
    203711
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    14th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    12th April 1918
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Died of wounds
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Hedauville Communal Cemetery Extension, France, Grave A. 15.
  • Place of Birth:
    Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, enlisted Upton-on-Severn, resident Birmingham
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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ATTWOOD Thomas Is Named On These Memorials

Upton on Severn Memorial Hall
Upton on Severn St Peter and St Paul’s Church

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Upton on Severn Memorial Hall with the information: Pte.

Further Information About ATTWOOD Thomas

Possibly also appears on Worcester St Peter’s in St Martin’s Church as T. Attwood.

The following report appears in the Upton on Severn News, 27th April 1918:
News has been received that Pte. T. Attwood (Worcester Regiment), of Cottage Row, a former member of the Territorials and also of the Working Men’s Club, has been killed in action.

The following report appears in the Upton on Severn News, 1st June 1918:
Mrs Phillips, of the Cottage Row, Upton-on-Severn, has received an illuminated certificate from the Territorial Force Association for the County of Worcester, expressing their sincerest sympathy with her in the loss of her foster son, Pte. T. Attwood, of the Worcestershire Regt.  The certificate is signed by the Earl of Coventry as President, by Sir R. Temple as Chairman, and by Major J. M. Reddie as Secretary of the association, and bears at the head the motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori – “It is sweet and glorious to die for one’s country.”

A photograph of Private T. Attwood of Upton can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 18th May 1918, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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Credits: Upton News researched by Brian Hill.