BASHFORD Thomas

  • First Name(s):
    Thomas 
  • Surname:
    BASHFORD
  • Service Number:
    20196
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    2nd Battalion
  • Unit:
    C Company
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    14th April 1918
  • Age At Death:
    23
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium, Panel 5.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of William and Laura Bashford, 50 Cemetery Rd., Lye, Stourbridge, Worcestershire

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BASHFORD Thomas Is Named On These Memorials

Lye and Wollescote War Memorial
Lye Christ Church Window
Wollescote School

Further Information About BASHFORD Thomas

1901 Census
Cross Walks Road, Lye
William Bashford, Head, age 32, Frost Stud Maker, born Wollescote, Worcester
Laura Bashford, wife, age 26, born Old Swinford, Worester
Thomas Bashford, son, age 5, born Wollescote, Worcester
David Bashford, son, age 3, born Wollescote, Worcester
Alice, daughter, age 4, born Wollescote, Worcester
Charles Woodridge, boarder, age 37, Coal Miner

Thomas Bashford volunteered for the Worcesters and joined the 2nd Battalion.  By 1918 he might well have come through three years of hard and dangerous warfare.  In April 1918, however, the battalion was near Ploegsteert and faced the full weight of the second German Spring Offensive on the River Lys.  The Worcesters were driven back from their trenches and fought bravely at Neuve Eglise but they were severely outnumbered. Losses were high and among them was Private Thomas Bashford who was killed in action on the 14th April.

Thomas Bashford has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Ploegsteert Memorial.

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Credits: Additional information researched and transcribed by the Black Country Society. Census records researched and transcribed by Sandra Taylor.