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Pte. Thomas Joyce
British Army 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.22nd Aug 1915)
Thomas Joyce served in the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry, he was aged aged 28 when he died on 22nd August 1915. Born in Jarrow in 1887, he was the Son of John and Mary Joyce (nee Whalen) of Albion Street Jarrow (late of Galway Ireland). On the 1911 census, Thomas Joyce aged 24 Platers Labourer in Shipyard is with his widowed father John Joyce and family at 49 Albion Street back, Jarrow. He was the husband of Mary Ellen Joyce (nee Walsh) of 23½ Cambrian Street Jarrow. He lived in Jarrow and enlisted in Barnard Castle.
Thomas is buried in Hop Store Cemetery and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (west face) Jarrow.