WORLD WAR I

Bingham War Memorial

65793	Driver Thomas Dennis Cuddy	Royal Field Artillery	Born 1893
Medal card	Shows he served in France from 30th August 1915
Roll of Honour	Served on the Western front and was wounded once.
Absent voters list	Unlike his brothers Alban and Sydney, Thomas is not shown on the absent voters list 1918 for Bingham. Maybe he returned to Kneesall (see below).

No service records on Ancestry except Medal card

	Thomas Dennis Cuddy From Ancestry.com
1893	Born Bingham, baptised 25/9/1893
Census 1891	Family living in Market Place Father: James Joseph, b 1860 in Creggs, Co. Roscommon, Ireland Mother: Mary A (nee Robinson), b 1862 Cropwell Butler Children: Margaret May, b 1888 Bingham Bertha, b 1889 Bingham	Agricultural labourer	Census – James born C Galway
Census 1901	Living in Newgate Street with Father: James Joseph Mother: Mary Ann Siblings: Bertha, b.1889 Norah, b.1891 Alban James, b. Bingham 1895 Barbara, b. 1897 Sydney, b. Bingham 1898 Sarah A, b.1901.	Waggoner on farm Mary Ann (Ancestry)	Census – James born Ross Ireland Note siblings who died in infancy – Betsy b 1885 d 1887 Margaret May b 1887 d ? Alban served in RAF Sydney died in WW1
Census 1911	Living-in at Laxton Lodge, Kneesall	Waggoner on farm
1929	James and Mary Cuddy died	Mary was on the ladies’ committee of the Bingham branch of The Royal British Legion.
	James Cuddy is probably an example of the groups of itinerant Irish farm labourers who came for the harvests during much of the 19th century.
1917	Oct-Dec qtr a Thomas D Cuddy married Beatrice A Crofts in Southwell. She may be the Annie Beatrice Cuddy who died in Southwell in March 1972 aged 78 (b 15th August 1893)
1940	December - a Thomas D Cuddy died at Mansfield aged 47