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Surname: WILCOCK
Forename(s): Thomas
Place of Birth: Bentham, Yorkshire
Service No: 52577
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 1st Battalion
Division: 6th Division
Age: 21
Date of Death: 1918-03-21
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Sp. Mem. A. 11.
CWGC Cemetery: VAULX HILL CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: HIGH BENTHAM, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Thomas Wilcock was the son of Thomas and Ellen Wilcock, née Wallbank. Both parents were born at Bentham, Yorkshire.
1901 Bentham, Yorkshire Census: 4, Mill Cottages - Thomas Wilcock, aged 3 years, born Bentham, son of Thomas and Ellen Wilcock.
1911 Bentham, Yorkshire Census: Mill Row - Thomas Wilcock, aged 13 years, born Bentham, son of Thomas and Ellen Wilcock.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Thomas Wilcock, 52577, W. York. R. P.D.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Thomas Wilcock, 52577, 1st W. York. R. Presumed Dead 21.3.18.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Thomas Wilcock, 52577, 1/Bn W. Yorks. Date and Place of Death: On or since 21.3.18. France. Death pres'd. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Father - Thomas. £13 9s. 4d.
Thomas (52577) and Private Maurice Wroe (52576) (q.v.) were killed in action on the same day.
A short biography of Thomas is included in: ‘Bentham’s Part in the Great War 1914-18’ by Allan and Marilyn Hartley (2019).
Data Source: Local War Memorial
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 6th Division
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Vaulx Hill Cemetery
CWGC Headstone
Courtesy of Allan Hartley, High Bentham
St Margaret's Churchyard, Bentham
Family gravestone
St Margaret's Churchyard, Bentham
Family gravestone - detail of memorial inscription
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26 April 1918
HIGH BENTHAM – Sad News
The sad news of the death of Private Robert Casson, R.F.A., the youngest son of Mr. Wm. Casson, of Hammon[d] Head, Mewith, Bentham, reached his father this week. He was home on leave about a month ago. This is the second son of Mr. Wm. Casson to pay the great price for his country. – Private Thomas Wilcock, of the Dukes, is reported missing since the 2lst March. He is the son of Mr. T. Wilcock, of Wenning Avenue, Bentham.
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26 April 1918
CRAVEN AND THE WAR
Bentham Soldier’s Death
The sad news of the death of Pte. Robert Casson, R.F.A., youngest son of Mr. Wm. Casson, of Hammon Head, Mewith, Bentham, reached his father this week. He was home on leave about a month ago. This is the second son of Mr. Wm. Casson to pay the great price for his country.
Pte. Thomas Wilcock, of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, is reported missing since March 21st. He was the son of Mr. T. Wilcock, of Wenning Avenue, Bentham.
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