WILLIAMS Thomas

The following information has been researched by and is courtesy of Geoff Sullivan:
Thomas Williams was born at Cleobury Mortimer in 1895, the son of Samuel and Harriet Williams. In 1901 the family were living in the parish of Bentley
Pauncefoot. Thomas had two brothers, Richard and Samuel and one sister, Marion. By 1911 they were living at Upton Warren on the Worcester Road, with two more sisters and another brother.

Thomas enlisted in the 4th Battalion of The Worcestershire Regiment, probably in August or September 1914. This battalion was part of the main Gallipoli landing force, which landed on 25th April 1915. Thomas was killed in action on 12th July 1915. He has no known grave so is commemorated on The Helles Memorial, which bears more than 21,000 names of United Kingdom and Indian men who died on the peninsular and have no known grave or were buried at sea in the Gallipoli waters.

Thomas’ brother Samuel is also named on the Upton Warren memorial and it is believed he has been identified. No service records survive for either
brother, it is assumed they were destroyed when a War Office repository was bombed in September 1940.

Their mother Harriet died in 1901 and their father remarried Marion Ellen Bevan in 1902.

Samuel Williams senior and his second wife Marion E Williams are buried in a grave just outside the church entrance.