WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 37122[EY] T/451733[ASC] |
Private Thomas Copley Daft | 1/4th East Yorkshire Regiment Driver, Royal Army Service Corps |
born 1898 |
| Medal roll | 21/9/19 Transferred as Driver to Royal Army Service Corps (same index
card) from 1/4th East Yorks Awarded Victory and British medals. No service/pension records exist on Ancestry |
His East Yorkshire number suggests he joined on November
2nd 1914 (numbers from 2858 joined on 2nd November 1914 and from 3181 joined
on 2nd December 1914) (http://armyservicenumbers.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/east-yorkshire-regiment-4th-battalion.html ) |
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| Forces War records web site | 1/4th Battalion Territorial Force 04.08.1914 Stationed at Hull as part of the York & Durham Brigade of the Northumbrian Division and then moved to South Holderness and then on to Darlington and then Newcastle. 07.04.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne where the formation became the 150th Brigade of the 50th Division which engaged in various action on the Western Front including; During 1915: The Battle of St Julien, The Battle of Frezenburg Ridge, The Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge. During 1916 (all on the Somme): The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval, The Battle of the Transloy Ridges (This was the final battle in the 1916 Somme Campaign.) During 1917 The First and Second Battles of the Scarpe, The Capture of Wancourt Ridge, The Second Battle of Passchendaele. During 1918 The Battle of St Quentin, The Actions at the Somme Crossings, The Battle of Rosieres, The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Hazebrouck, The Battle of the Aisne. 15.07.1918 Reduced to cadre and moved to defend the Lines of Communication in Dieppe. 16.08.1918 Transferred to the 116th Brigade of the 39th Division. 07.11.1918 Demobilised at Cucq. The Battle of Flers-Courcelette was a subsidiary attack of the Somme Offensive. It is notable for the introduction of tanks. The attack was launched across a 12 km front from Rawlinson's Fourth Army salient on 15th September. Twelve divisions were employed, along with all the tanks the British army possessed [49]. The Battle of Morval, 25–28 September 1916, was an attack during the Battle of the Somme by the British Fourth Army on the villages of Morval, Gueudecourt and Lesbœufs |
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| Roll of Honour AVL |
Wounded twice on the Western Front AVL Address: Nottingham Road, 7th East Yorks Regt. |
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Family history etc
| Private Thomas Copley Daft | |||
| 1898 | Born Bingham11th Nov 1898 | ||
| Census 1901 | Lived at 2 Long Acre Row, Bingham with: Grandmother: Ann Daft, b. 1847 Barnstone, widow Uncle: George, b.1876 in Granby Aunt, Mary E, b.1877 in Southwell. Cousin: John, b 1900 Bingham |
Charwoman Grocer’s Drayman |
Cousin John [Henry] served in WW1 – click on name to learn more |
| Census 1911 | Living on Long Acre Row with: Father: Arthur Daft,b.1878 Granby Mother, Ellen, b.1880 Bingham Siblings: Stephen, b.1901 Bingham Gladys Mary, b.1902 Bingham Richard Arthur, b.1905 Bingham George William, b.1907 Bingham John Henry, b.1910 Bingham |
School & grocer’s errand boy Roadman labourer for Rural District Council school & newsboy |
Uncle: George and Mary living at Starnhill with John
Henry (b. 1900) and siblings Stephen served in WW1, click on name for more |
| 1918 AVL | Nottingham Rd | ||
| Electoral Register | 1922: Thomas with Arthur and Ellen on Nottingham Road | ||
| 1922 | Married Miriam Phoebe Smith, 15th April 1922 at Radcliffe Parish Church. Both gave their address as Radcliffe. Thomas was an Asylum Attendant. | Thomas’ father, Arthur was a labourer. Miriam’s’ father, George Edward, was a painter. |
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| 1939 Register | Nottinghamshire County Mental Hospital Thomas C Daft, b. 11 Nov 18898, married Miriam P Daft, b. 27 Jun 1898, married Joyce Daft (later Johnson), single 16 Jun 1924 |
Mental Nurse Unpaid domestic duties |
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| 1971 | Died Nottingham Mar qtr. | ||