Name Position on Roll Rank Service Number Unit Place of birth Date of birth Enlisted Place of death Date of death Age at death Where buried |
C5-13 Signaller 8566 11th Bn Royal Fusiliers Bolton, Lancashire 1896
France 1 July 1916 20 Not Known - listed on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France |
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A promising career has been cut short by the death in action of Pte. Tom Lever, Royal Fusiliers, previously an employee in the Health Department of the Bolton Corporation. The first information to reach his parents, who reside at 31 Queensgate, was from an unusual source, an Oxford lady, with whom he had been billeted whilst in training stated that she had received the sorrowful news from one of his comrades lying wounded at Birmingham. As a boy Lever attended Oxford Grove School, and was a well-known and respected scholar at Beverley-rd. I. M. Church. He was killed on July 7th - less than a week after his 20th birthday. The young soldier was step-brother of Mr. Tom Bretherton, of the Canadians, and recently promoted to commissioned rank.
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Lever, Tom