Thomas Morrall, Age 17

Private, 10665, 13th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.

Thomas was another man that had been born in Dawley but had left the area at the time of his enlistment, He was residing in Newcastle.

Thomas was killed in action on the 6th July 1916 during the first few days of the battle of the Somme and his body was never found.

Thomas’s name appears on the Thiepval memorial on Pier/Face 8C, 9A & 16A.

Extra info:
Thomas was Christened Thomas William Morrall on the 11 Jun 1899, at Dawley-Magna (Holy Trinity) his father was also called Thomas Morrall and his mother was Agnes, Maiden name Walker (Harris) who was bord in Dawley and was living at Gas house row in 1891, by the age of two Thomas had moved to Newcastle under Lyme.

Thomas’s mother was Christened Agnes Harris on the 6 Jun 1880, her mother (Thomas’s grandmother) was Emily Harris, Emily married William Walker on the 28 Mar 1881, Agnes became known as Agnes Walker after her mother’s marriage.

Agnes married William Morrall at Saint Giles, Newcastle Under Lyme, Stafford, England on the 5 Dec 1896, I don’t know why Thomas was born and christened in Dawley?

WWI Medal Rolls Index Card

Commonwealth War Graves
Buried or Commemorated Thiepval Memorial

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Victory Medal	British War Medal