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Pte. Thomas Gourley
British Army 4th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Sunderland
(d.20th Oct 1917)
Thomas Gourley was serving with the 4th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, when he died on 20th October 1917, he was 29 years old and had enlisted with the Northumberland Fusiliers in Sunderland. He was the husband of Laura Gourley (nee Watson). On the 1911 census, Thomas Gourley age 23 Coal Miner Stoneman is listed as with his wife Laura Gourley and child at 14 Morgan Street, Sunderland.
Thomas is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (west face) Jarrow.