THOMAS Arthur Coke

  • First Name(s):
    Arthur 
    Coke 
  • Surname:
    THOMAS
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Second Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  • Battalion:
    6th Battalion
  • Unit:
    D Company
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    2nd June 1916
  • Age At Death:
    30
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium, Enclosure No 2 Grave IV. C. 12.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of the Reverend David Thomas, of Garsington Rectory, Oxford

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THOMAS Arthur Coke Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial

Further Information About THOMAS Arthur Coke

Awarded M.M.

Additional information on the memorial: Second- Lieut.

Arthur Thomas was born in 1886. He attended Bromsgrove School from 1902 to 1904. He was a School Monitor and a member of the XV team. On leaving School he went into Lloyds Bank and after a short time was transferred to the Bromsgrove Branch. On the outbreak of the war he at once enlisted and was at the Front as a Private. He was too capable and cheery to be left in the ranks permanently and he justified his promotion. Death came to him instantaneously, a shell bursting at his feet.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.

The following information has been researched by Sandra Taylor:
Arthur Thomas enlisted as a Private in the 3th Battalion London Regiment, service no 147. He entered France on 4th November 1914 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant with the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry on 4th December 1915. He was killed in action on 2nd June 1916. Arthur was awarded the Military Medal, the 1914 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal which were apparently sent to: C/O Mrs Claude Hankey, Lych Gate Cottage, Dorchester, Wallingford. A note on his medal index card refers to the disposal/taken on charge of the Military Medal.

Arthur Thomas worked at the Evesham branch of Lloyds Bank. His name appears on the Lloyds Bank War Memorial unveiled at the Head Office on 8th February 1921 and in the company’s Memorial Album 1914 1918.

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