WHITEHALL

		Source
		CWGC	SDGW	Uttoxeter Advertiser	Other
Parents	Mr. & Mrs. Joseph & Martha Whitehall of Kingstone, Staffordshire	Yes			1
	Mrs. M. Whitehall			2a
Where born	Gratwich, Staffordshire		Yes
When born	About 1890				4
Position in the family	Had a brother Ernest, who also served				1
Address	Parents: Kingstone, Staffordshire				1
Address	Parents: Woodcock Heath			2a
Where educated
Spouse				2a
Children
Employment Before Joining up	Farmers & Cleveland Dairy Company, Uttoxeter				1
When enlisted	May 1917			2a	1
Where enlisted	Uttoxeter, Staffordshire		Yes		1
When left for the front	January 1918			2a
Regiment	Royal Garrison Artillery	Yes		Yes	1, 3
Unit	12TH MTN.BTY.R.G.A. BN.				1
	12^th Mountain Battery	Yes
	Mounted Battery			2a
	Mountain Battery				1
Rank	Gunner	Yes	Yes	2a	1, 3
Service Number	162349	Yes	Yes		1, 3
Date of Death	4^th November 1918	Yes	Yes	2a	1
Age at time of death	28	Yes			1
Where Killed or died	Gaza, Palestine			2a	1
Where Killed or died	Egypt		Yes
How he died	Illness- Dysentery and Bronchial Pneumonia		Yes (states ‘Died’)	2a
Location of Grave or Memorial	Gaza War Cemetery – Grave XIX. G. 2.	Yes
Awards	Victory Medal RGA/195 B Page 9551				3
Awards	British Medal RGA/195 B Page 9551				3
Where commemorated	Kingstone Church War Memorial				1

Thomas trained at Salisbury ^{[1, 2a]} and left England in January 1918 for Egypt.^{[1, 2a]}

He contracted dysentery in October 1918 ^{[1,
2a]} and died of dysentery and bronchial pneumonia on the 4^th of November 1918,^{[1, 2a]}just a week before the end of the war.

On the 13^th of November 1918, two days after the Armistice came into force, the Uttoxeter Advertiser published an article reporting his death:^[2a]

“We regret to announce that Mrs. M. Whitehall, of Woodcock Heath, has received notice from the Record Office that her son, Gunner Thomas Joseph Whitehall died at Gaza, in Palestine, on November 4 from dysentery and bronchial pneumonia.

“He enlisted in May 1917 as a gunner in the Mounted Battery, and received most of his training on Salisbury Plain. He left England in January, 1918, and after a short stay in France was drafted to Egypt and from there to Palestine, where he saw action along the Jordan. In October he was seized with dysentery and expired as above stated. Before joining the [remainder of article needs finding]