WESTON Thomas

Thomas Weston lived in Park St., Stourbridge and was a member of the Wesleyan Methodists.  He enlisted in the 10th Worcesters in 1916 and endured the Battle of the Somme and Passchendaele in 1917.  In 1918 he survived the first German offensive of the 21st March 1918 when the battalion was forced into a long retreat.  It was then transferred to the front line south of Ypres only to face the second great German offensive on the Lys.  The troops were driven back from the Messines Ridge and on the 14th April were holding Neuve Eglise.   In the attempt to halt the next German attack Private Weston was one of many Worcesters who were killed in action on the 16th April. He was 20 years of age and he is also commemorated on the St. Thomas’s church and Methodist church memorials.

Thomas Weston has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Tyne Cot Memorial.