Second Lieutenant Thomas Jessop WEISS

Second Lieutenant Thomas Jessop WEISS - B Battery, 151st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

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Killed in Action on Tuesday June 27th 1916 aged 27

Military History


Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery

Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
3 Feb 1916 in France	~	Berkswell

Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted	Other War Memorials
Preparation for Battle of the Somme	Commissioned 13 Oct 1914 (Gazette)

Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
Maricourt	Former Officer Cadet in OTC

Thomas died of wounds received in action on 27 June 1916. The war diary consisted of two very brief entries which are transcribed below.

War Diary

B/151 June/1916 - in the Maricourt Valley. Wire cutting and general bombardment to prepare for infantry assualt from the 24th to 31st (sic) June.

27/6/1916 - 2 Lieut T.J. Weiss died of wounds received in action.

Personal & Family History

Birth Date/Place	Baptism Date/Place
3rd March 1889 in Edgbaston	14 May 1889 at Edgbaston, St Augustine

Parents Names	Abode
John Weiss and Mary Hope Weiss (nee Jessop)	Both John and Mary died in 1910

Schools	Colleges
Bilton Grange Preparatory School	~

Address History	Employment History
1889 - St. Augustus Road, Edgbaston
1891 - St. Augustus Road, Edgbaston
1901 - Bilton Grange Preparatory School, Dunchurch
1911 - Not found (College or University?)
1913 - Mount Pleasant, Berkswell (Voters Roll)
1916 - Mount Pleasant, Berkswell (GWR Shareholders Register)

Thomas is also remembered in a plaque dedicated to him inside Berkswell Church (picture above)
Thomas was a shareholder in the Great Western Railway
We are unable to find Thomas in the 1911 Census. The London Gazette said he was Commissioned from the Officer Training Corps
and so may well have been at University