Thomas Frederick Moran
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Thomas Frederick was born in 1896 the son of Thomas Dominick Moran a bricklayer and Florence Moran née Bish. His father was born in 1859 in Ballina County Mayo and his mother in 1871 at Nottingham. They were married in 1896 in Nottingham and had eleven children five of whom died in fancy or childhood. Thomas’s surviving siblings, all born in Nottingham except Robert (Blagdon Somerset), were Arthur b.1895, James b.1900, Robert b.1901, Margaret b.1904 and Catherine b.1906. In 1911 they lived at 12 Cavendish Street and at the time of Thomas’s death at 17 Nugent Street St Ann’s Well Road (both Nottingham).
He was a barman prior to enlisting on 6th September 1916 at Nottingham. He went to France on 18th March 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 20, during the attack on Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Foncquevillers Military Cemetery Grave Reference: I L 30. Recorded by CWGC as F Moran
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