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05/11/2017
05/11/2017
05/11/2017 The CWGC record Corporal Thomas Henry as the son of Robert and Elizabeth Henry of 88 Mount Pottinger Road, Belfast.
05/11/2017 Thomas has no known grave and is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial.
05/11/2017 The ground in this area of Belgium became a quagmire, following the incessant rain.
05/11/2017 Corporal Thomas Henry was serving with the 14th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles, attached to the 109th Trench Mortar Battery, when he was killed in action on Thursday 16th August 1917.
05/11/2017 Sometime before the Battle of Langemarck he became attached to the 109th Trench Mortar Battery.
05/11/2017 Thomas Henry enlisted in Belfast, joining the 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.
05/11/2017 The 1911 census lists Thomas Andrew as age 14, living with the family at house 36 in Ballyskeagh Town, Drumbeg, County Down. Thomas had left school and was employed as a card lacer. A card lacer fed pattern cards into weaving looms.
05/11/2017 Family: Robert Henry, Eliza Ann Henry, Annie Jane Henry (born about 1883), Maria Henry (born about 1885), Martha Henry (born 29th March 1887), Margaret Henry (born 10th July 1888), William D Henry (born 9th September 1890), Mary Henry (born 29th December 1892), John James Henry (born 4th April 1895), Thomas Andrew Henry (born 21st October 1896), Caroline E Henry (born 7th March 1898), Robert Henry (born about 1901), Samuel George Henry (born 25th July 1902).
05/11/2017 The 1901 census lists Thomas Andrew as age 4, living with the family at house 9 in Church Street Cookstown. His father was a labourer.
05/11/2017 Thomas Henry was born at in the parish of Derryloran, Cookstown, on 21st October 1896.
05/11/2017 Thomas Andrew Henry was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Anne Henry. Robert Henry and Elizabeth Blair were married on 3rd November 1881 in the district of Dungannon.
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