South Warwickshire Family History Society War Memorial Transcription Project

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 The Fallen Men of South Warwickshire - World War One


Corporal 12751 Thomas Randall NASON

6th Battalion, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry attached to 60th Trench Mortar Battery

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Killed in Action on Thursday August 31st 1916 aged 24

Military History
     
Theatre of War Medals Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders 1914-15 Star, British War & Victory Medals Delville Wood Cemetery
     
Arrived in Theatre Medal Citation (if app) SWFHS Area Memorials
22 Jul 1915 ~ Ettington
     
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed Date and Place Enlisted Other War Memorials
Battle of Delville Wood (Somme) Oct 1914 at Oxford  
     
Place of Death Previous Regiments or Units  
Longueval    
     

Original Burial

CWGC records (click) show that Thomas's remains were found in a grave at map reference 57C.S.17.d.5.6 and re-interred at Delville Wood Cemetery on, we think, 12 Nov 1920 (click). 57C.S.17.d.5.6 was a point in a field just to the south of Longueval and just outside the very southern end of Delville Wood, click here to create a map of the area.

Circumstances of Death

Thomas is listed as being killed in action on 31 Aug 1916. The war diary for the 60th Trench Mortar Battery reveals that there were four units within 60 Battery, W; X; Y & Z. The entries from 31st Aug from all four units are transcribed below, however none of them give any real clues as to how Thomas was killed nor do they list casualties..

W - No entry for 31 Aug 1916

X - In the Field 31/8/16: One gun carried out retaliation on point A.? D 5 7, the other firing on enemy trenches between point A.16.a.95.5

Y - In the Field 31/8/16: Watling Crater fired on and wire rear and right of it. Trenches rear of German Crater badly damaged. All guns practically under water. 2/Lt Dodds and one man transferred to DAC. 2/Lt Sharpe G.E. transferred from 301st Bde.

Z - In the Field 31/8/16: Artillery activity, wire cut at A23; A70.15 & A22  B30.30.
 Personal & Family History

 

Birth Date/Place Baptism Date/Place
Jan Qtr 1891 at Ettington  
   
Parents Names Abode
Thomas and Emma Nason Elm Terrace, Ettington
   
Schools Colleges
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Address History Employment History
1891 - Elm Terrace, Eatington 1911 - Farm labourer 
1901 - Ettington  
1911 - Halford Road, Ettington  
1914 - Halford Road, Ettington  
1916 - Elm Terrace, Ettington  
   

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