2nd Lieutenant Thomas Moody
| Date of Birth | 09/12/1888 |
|---|---|
| Age at Death | 27 |
| Date of Death | 01/07/1916 |
| Service Number | |
| Military Service | 4th City of London Battalion, Royal Fusiliers |
| Merton Address | |
| Local Memorial | Mitcham War Memorial |
Additional Information
Thomas who was born on the 9th of December 1888 was the second child of Amy and Riley Thomas Moody. His father, Riley Thomas had met and married Amy Haywood at St Martin-in the Field Church on the 21st of February 1885. Twenty-three-year-old Riley Thomas was employed as a clerk at the time of his marriage to Amy Haywood.
The 1889 London electoral register reveals that Amy and Riley Thomas with their daughter Amy and baby Thomas rented a two room first floor unfurnished flat at 21 Iffley Road for 5s and 6d per week.
At the time of the 1891 Census, the Moody family resided 41 Beryl Road, Fulham with Amy’s widowed father, David Haywood, John Woodward a 29-year-old boarder and a Charles Westmacott a 70-year-old lodger. Riley Thomas was employed as a postman. School records reveal that Thomas attended the St Dunstan’s Road School in 1898.
The 1901 Census reveals that Amy and Riley Thomas resided with their 3 children at 41 Biryal Road in a 3-room house in Fulham, with their 48-year-old Mary Gorsuch, a lodger. Riley Thomas was still employed as a postman.
According to the 1911 Census, Riley Thomas had been promoted to head postman with the GPO, Amy and Riley Thomas with their daughter and youngest son now lived 94 Madrid Road in Barnes. It is difficult to be certain where 23-year-old Thomas was at the time of the 1911 Census.
The University of London Roll of The Fallen reveals that Thomas had obtained his Batchelor of Science degree at Birbeck College where he also enlisted as a soldier in 1914, rising to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the London Regiment but was killed in action at Bucquoy in the Battle of the Somme on the 1st of July 1916.