Année de naissance: 1898

Lieu de naissance: Portadown, County Armagh, Irlande du Nord, Royaume-Uni

Profession: Etudiant

Pays: Ireland

Force armée: British Expeditionary Force

Rang: Captain

Numéro de service: /

Incorporation date: 19/16

Incorporation nom de lieu: Portadown, County Armagh, Irlande du Nord, Royaume-Uni

Unités:  —  Royal Irish Fusiliers, 9th Bn.  (Dernière unité connue)

Date de décès: 18/08/1917

Lieu de décès: No. 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Brandhoek, Belgique

Cause du décès: Died of wounds (D.O.W.)

Âge: 19

1914-15 Star Médaille

British War Medal Médaille

Victory Medal Médaille

On 16 August 1917, the 9th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers came under heavy enemy fire. They reached Gallipoli and Hill 35 but the positions were impossible to hold. Due to German counter attacks they had to fall back to their starting position. Thomas was wounded during this attack, he had a gunshot wound to the throat. The 9th Battalion left the line on 17 September and moved to Vlamertinge. Captain Shillington was taken back to the N°3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station in Brandhoek (a hamlet of Vlamertinge), where he died of his wounds on 18 September.

9 Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers (The National Archives, Kew (TNA) WO 95/2505/2). https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ Sources utilisées

Cunliffe Marcus, The Royal Irish Fusiliers : 1793-1968 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1970). Sources utilisées

Harris Henry, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (the 87th and 89th Regiments of Foot) (London, Leo Cooper, 1972). Sources utilisées

McCarthy, Chris. Passchendaele. The Day-by-Day Account (London: Unicorn Publishing Group, 2018). Sources utilisées

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/140473

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=6eaaca18-4489-414b-8a74-467deb82e81e

Lives of the First World War (Imperial War Museum) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/4014279