Heber Thomas
- Birth Date:
- 00.00.1891
- Death date:
- 12.10.1917
- Length of life:
- 26
- Days since birth:
- 49118
- Years since birth:
- 134
- Days since death:
- 39336
- Years since death:
- 107
- Categories:
- WWI participant
- Cemetery:
- Zonnebeke, Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery And Memorial To The Missing
2nd Lieutenant Heber Thomas, of the Buffs (East Kent Regiment) was the son of the Rev. David and Mrs Jane Thomas of Dolgellau, Meirionydd, Wales. He was born when his parents lived at Ystumtuen, near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. He had two sisters, Olive and Myra.
He was killed in action in an attack near Poelkapelle on 12 October 1917. His father was unwell at that time and he too died about two years later and is buried at LLangynfelyn, Ceredigion, where he was born. The son, Heber, is remembered on his fathers gravestone and on Panel 17 of the Tyne Cot cemetery, Ypres. Hebers body was not recovered.
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Awards:
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Unit/ship/squadron: 4th Bn. attd. 7th Bn.
Source: wikipedia.org, mod.uk
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