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Sgt. Thomas Ronaldson
British Army 526 (1st Durham) Field Coy. Royal Engineers
(d.17th Apr 1917)
Thomas Ronaldson, Sergeant 470095, enlisted at Jarrow and served in the 526th (1st Durham) Field Company, Royal Engineers. He was killed in action age 27 on the 17th April 1917 and is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph, St. Paul's Church and is buried in Hervin Farm British Cemetery, St Laurent-Blangy. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals also that he was killed in action.
Thomas was born in Jarrow 1889 and was married to Edith Ronaldson nee Biddle of Jarrow. In the 1911 census they were living at 79 Croft Terrace, Jarrow. Thomas(22) was a brass tube caster's helper in a brass and copper tube works. His wife Edith(19) of under one year was born in Birmingham. They had no children and his mother-in-law Sarah Jane Biddle(46) widow was staying there as well.
