HAMMOND, Thomas Edward


No.2985, Private, Thomas Edward HAMMOND
Aged 28
presumably no overseas service, hence no medals
2nd /5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Died on Tuesday, 29th February 1916


Born 1889 (3rd qtr Bury St.Edmunds 4a:700) son of Thomas and Caroline HAMMOND (née WILSON)

1891 census...Aged 1, he was at 7 Zebra Court, College Street, Bury St.Edmunds with his father Thomas HAMMOND [44] Marine Stores dealer born Bermondsey, his mother Caroline [39] born Shadwell, Norfolk; sister Lavinia [5] and brother Charles [3]. All the children born in Bury St.Edmunds

His father died in 1898.

1901 census...Aged 11, he was at 4 Baker's Terrace, Bury St.Edmunds with his widowed mother (charwoman) and brother Charles (errand boy).

1911 census...Aged 21, a carter's labourer, he was at 5 Pleasant Row, Mill Road, Bury St.Edmunds with his mother.

Pension card has his mother at Bridge Cottage, Fakenham Magna, nr.Thetford


He enlisted in Bury St.Edmunds. He died in Aylesbury ( Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital ?) from Septic Bronchitis. No medal index card has been found. The 2nd/5th Battalion was a home sevice battalion, training recruits and preparing wounded for return to service.




Thomas Hammond is buried in Bury St.Edmunds Cemetery compartment 35, grave 10A

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