Second Lieutenant Thomas Waldegrave Nops
| Date of Birth | 30 July 1892 |
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| Age at Death | 24 |
| Date of Death | 21 October 1916 |
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| Military Service | 9th Kite Balloon Section Royal Flying Corps |
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| Local Memorial | King's College School, Wimbledon |
Additional Information
Thomas was born on the 30 July, 1892, and baptised on the 22 October at Christ Church on Surbiton Hill, the son of Edwin and Marianne Nops. He was the baby of the family, with older brothers Walter, Arthur, and John, and a sister Ethel. John was the closest sibling in age to Thomas, being six years older. The family lived at Eastbourne Lodge, Surbiton Hill, and his father worked as a clerk in the General Post Office. His mother was a schoolmistress.
Thomas attended King’s College School from 1904-1908, and subsequently entered the service of Messrs Higginson & Co Bankers. In 1911, at the time of the census, he was staying in the Waldorf Hotel in Aldwych with his mother, and working as a merchant’s clerk.
Thomas enlisted in the East Surreys before joining the Royal Flying Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant. He came down with the chicken pox whilst serving in Etaples in April 1916, and was briefly put in an isolation hospital. He was killed in action on the 21 October, 1916, in a “kite balloon encounter”, and left £330 to his father. He is buried in Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck in northern France.