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Surname: OUTHWAITE
Forename(s): Thomas Pickard
Place of Birth: Chapel-le-Dale, Yorkshire
Service No: 28234
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 9th (Service) Battalion
Division: 23rd Division
Age: 36
Date of Death: 1917-06-19
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: XIV. E. 12A
CWGC Cemetery: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: BAINBRIDGE, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: MARSETT, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: STALLING BUSK, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Thomas Pickard Outhwaite was the son of William and Eleanor Outhwaite, née Pickard. William was born at Stalling Busk and Eleanor at Newbiggin, near Aysgarth, Yorkshire. Thomas’s sister, Maggie Ellen, was married to Private George Mason (M2/221759) (q.v.) and sister, Ann, was married to Private James Bell (204943) (q.v.).
1881 Ingleton, Yorkshire Census: Southerscales, Chapel-le-Dale - Thomas R. [sic] Outhwaite, aged 4 months, born Ingleton, son of William and Ellenor [sic] Outhwaite.
1891 Stalling Busk, Yorkshire Census: Thomas Pickard Outhwaite, aged 10 years, born Ingleton, Yorkshire, son of William and Eleanor Outhwaite.
1901 Nessfield with Langbar, Yorkshire Census: Wards End, Langbar - Thomas Pickard Outhwaite, aged 20 years, born Ingleton, Yorkshire. Game Keeper.
Thomas was married to Florence Gertrude Edwards in 1910. Florence married Barnard Sherrington in 1918.
1911 Raydaleside, Stalling Busk, Yorkshire Census: Raydale Grange - Thomas Pickard Outhwaite, aged 30 years, born Ingleton, Yorkshire, husband of Florence Gertrude Outhwaite.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Thomas P. Outhwaite, 28234, York. R. Dead.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Thomas P. Outhwaite, 28234, 2/York. R.; 9/York. R. Dead.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Thomas Pickard Outhwaite, 28234, 9th Bn Yorks. Date and Place of Death: 19.6.17. France. Wounds. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow and Residual Legatee - Florence G. [Outhwaite] £2 7s. 6d. War Gratuity: Widow and Residual Legatee - Florence G. Sherrington. £3 10s. 0d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Thomas. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Florence Gertrude, born 23.11.83. Address: Roydale [sic] Grange, Askrigg, S. O. Yorks. Children: Doris Nellie [Edwards], born 28.1.04.
A short biography of Thomas is included in: ‘Wensleydale Remembered – The Sacrifice made by the Families of a Northern Dale 1914-1918 and 1939-1945’ by Keith Taylor (2004).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
OUTHWAITE, Thomas P., Yorkshire Regiment, Raydaleside, died from wounds, France, June 9, 1917.
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Private Thomas Pickard OUTHWAITE
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 23rd Division
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22 June 1917
BAINBRIDGE - Wounded
Mrs. Outhwaite, of Raydale Grange, Askrigg, has received news that her husband, Pte. T. P. Outhwaite, has been wounded and is in hospital in France. Before enlisting Pte. Outhwaite was gamekeeper on the Raydale estate for Col. Percy Williams, M.P.
29 June 1917
OUTHWAITE – Died from wounds received in action in France, June 9th, 1917, Pte Thomas Pickard Outhwaite, Yorks. Regiment, of Raydaleside, Hawes.
29 June 1917
RAYDALESIDE SOLDIER DIES FROM WOUNDS
News was received on Monday by Mrs. Outhwaite, Raydale Grange, Raydaleside, that her husband, Private Thomas Pickard Outhwaite, Yorks. Regiment, had died from wounds received in action on the 9th June. Pte. Outhwaite enlisted in May 1916, and went to France last September. For about seven years he had acted as gamekeeper under his father on the Raydale Estate of Col. Percy Williams, M.P. He was well known in this district, and very highly esteemed. He was a gifted elocutionist, and, along with Mrs. Outhwaite, was much in request at local entertainments. Pte. Outhwaite is the first Raydaleside man to lay down his life for his country, though two or three have been wounded. Much sympathy is felt for Mrs. Outhwaite in her sad bereavement
06 July 1917
HAWES – THE LATE PRIVATE T. P. OUTHWAITE
We reproduce a photograph of the late Private Thomas Pickard Outhwaite, Yorks. Regiment, husband of Mrs. Outhwaite, Raydale Grange, Raydaleside, Hawes, whose death from wounds received in action on the Western Front we reported in last week’s ‘Craven Herald.’ For seven years the deceased soldier assisted his father as gamekeeper on the Raydale Estate of Col. Percy Williams, M.P. He was a gifted elocutionist, and, assisted by his wife, was a popular figure at local entertainments. He is the first Raydaleside man to pay the supreme price of patriotism.
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