WAR MEMORIALS IN THE PARISH OF NORTHOP
The villages of Northop, Northop Hall and Sychdyn (Soughton)
The villages of Northop, Northop Hall and Sychdyn (Soughton)
Name Thomas Wilcock
Regiment 3/5th Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Service Rank and Number Private 3594
Military Cemetery/Memorial St Matthews Church Cemetery, Buckley, Flintshire
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial
Country of Cemetery/Memorial
Medals Awarded British War Medal, Victory Medal
Date and Circumstances of Death Thomas died from TB on the 6th February 1917 aged 21.
Biographical Details Known
Thomas was born in 1896 and was the son of James and Sydney Wilcock. In 1901 this family lived in Pentre Bridge, Northop Hall where James, the father was a 'hewer of coal'. There were six children at that time Jane 12, James 9, John 7, Thomas 5, Isabella 3 and Hannah 1. Two years later, another boy was born who was named Samuel. We have some lovely family photographs of these siblings below.
Regiment 3/5th Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Service Rank and Number Private 3594
Military Cemetery/Memorial St Matthews Church Cemetery, Buckley, Flintshire
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial
Country of Cemetery/Memorial
Medals Awarded British War Medal, Victory Medal
Date and Circumstances of Death Thomas died from TB on the 6th February 1917 aged 21.
Biographical Details Known
Thomas was born in 1896 and was the son of James and Sydney Wilcock. In 1901 this family lived in Pentre Bridge, Northop Hall where James, the father was a 'hewer of coal'. There were six children at that time Jane 12, James 9, John 7, Thomas 5, Isabella 3 and Hannah 1. Two years later, another boy was born who was named Samuel. We have some lovely family photographs of these siblings below.
Thomas signed up for the Territorials on 7th December 1915 when he was 19. By then the family was living in 2 Fern Bank Northop Hall. He was part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force between 27th June 1916 to the 5th September 1916 when he was sent home sick. On the 14th September 1916 he was declared to be permanently unfit by a Medical Board at 3rd London General Hospital Wandsworth. He had TB and they pronounced that in their opinion there was a "total inability to earn a livlihood at present." Five months later he was dead. It is believed by members of the family, that he died at home.
Thomas Wilcock
Many grateful thanks to Thomas's nephew, James Catherall for contacing us with details of his uncle's sad story and for sharing these lovely old family photographs with us. We have also posted the football and cricket team photographs on the Northop Hall Home Front WW1 page.
Thomas, seated on the right with two comrades
Thomas's elder brother, John (Jack) also served in the army. He enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery in December 1917. He survived the war.
John Wilcock
Private John Wilcock
This intruiging photograph has John Wilcock standing on the left of the back row, wearing civilian clothes.
Northop Hall cricket team, we think pre-war. John Wilcock is seated on the far left.
Northop Hall Village Football Club 1914. John Wilcock is the player seated in the centre of the middle row. His elder brother James is standing on the left with a towel over his shoulder.
James Wilcock, the eldest of the boys, did not serve in the armed forces. It is believed that he was a coal miner
Isabella is the older girl here and Hannah is the younger. The boy is Samuel, the youngest child in the family who also died of TB when he was 17 in 1920.
This is Jane Wilcock, the eldest child, standing outside the family home in Fern Bank, Northop Hall.