HAYES

		Sources
		CWGC	SDGW	Uttoxeter Advertiser	Other
Parents	Mrs. Mary Ann Hayes	Yes
Parents	Mrs. M. A. Hayes			6b
Where born	Uttoxeter		Yes
When born	About 1890 or 1891				3
Address	57, Stone Road, Uttoxeter (parents)	Yes		6b, 6f, 6g, 6h, 6i	8
	Stone Road, Uttoxeter			6e, 6f
	Self: Uttoxeter		Yes
Spouse	No, but he had a sweetheart Edie			6g, 6h, 6i
Children
Employment Before Joining up	Fitter at the Leighton Ironworks, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire			6f
Employment Before Joining up	Leighton Ironworks, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire			6a	8
Where enlisted	Uttoxeter		Yes		8
Regiment	North Staffordshire	Yes	Yes	6i	1, 7, 8
Unit	1^st/6^th Bn.	Yes	Yes	6i	8
	1/6^th (T.F.) Bn				8
	‘A’ Company (‘B’ crossed-out)				1
Rank	Lance Corporal		Yes	6b, 6f, 6g, 6h, 6i	1, 8
Rank	Private			6e	, 7
Service Number	Formerly 2670				1, 7
Service Number	240536	Yes	Yes		1, 7, 8
Date of Death	1 July 1916	Yes	Yes	6f, 6g, 6h, 6i	1
Age at time of death	25	Yes		6b
Age at time of death	26			6f
Where Killed or died	Somme – 1^st day (Gommecourt Wood)			6g, 6h, 6i
Where Killed or died	France/Flanders		Yes
How he died	Killed in Action		Yes	6h, 6i	8
	Missing, presumed dead				7
	Missing in action				8
	Missing and then Died of Illness				1
Location of Grave or Memorial	Thiepval Memorial for the Missing Pier and Face 14B and 14C	Yes			4
	Uttoxeter Town War Memorial				8
	Memorial inside the Catholic Church in Balance Street, Uttoxeter				4
Awards	1915 Star F/5/B2 Page 142				7
	Victory Medal F/104 B20 Page 2511				7
	British Medal F/104 B20 Page 2511				7

Before the war he was a fitter at the Leighton Ironworks, the precursor of the modern JCB.

Thomas was a member of the local Territorial company^6b when war broke out. He played regularly for the Territorial Football Club before the war^6b.

He was one of the first men to leave Uttoxeter shortly after war broke out in August 1914^{6a,
8} and first went to the Western Front on 5^th March 1915^7,.

He took part in the charge on the Hohenzollern Redoubt on the 13th of October 1915⁸, where he received a gunshot wound in his right thigh^6b. This is confirmed by an entry in the regimental records¹ which say that he was wounded on the 13^th October 1915.

After recovering from his wounds hereturned to the front and was wounded again in May 1916. He had a short leave in Uttoxeter and then returned to service during the first week of June 1916⁸.

The Uttoxeter Advertiser reported that he was missing in the middle of July 1916^6e. It said that he had not been seen after the fighting of the first day of the battle of the Somme on the 1^st July^6f.

His regimental records¹ confirm that he went missing on the 1^st July 1916 and died of illness on or since that date.

The Uttoxeter Advertiser Roll of honour says that he died at Gommecourt Wood.

He has no known grave and his name is recorded on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing.