Bolton Borough Coat of Arms from original Oxford Grove Council School Oxford Grove Council School, Bolton, Roll of Honour 1914-1919
 

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

Thomas WhistonWhiston, Thomas

C5-05

Driver

711908

B Bty 211th Bde Royal Field Artillery

Bolton, Lancashire

1892

 

Belgium

28 September 1917

24

Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium

 

Driver THOMAS WHISTON, R.F.A., was carrying ammunition when he was killed on the night of Sept. 23-24th. He was mobilized with the R.F.A. at the commencement of the war, and went to Egypt, but was subsequently transferred to another front. Aged 24, and single, he lived at 31, Waldeck-st., Bolton. He worked as a collier at Pretoria Pits in civil life, and his name is on the Rolls of Honour at Oxford Grove School and St. Luke’s Sunday School.

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