Thomas Edwin Owen (1894 - 1917)

Born 1894 in Forden, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Died 3 Apr 1917 at about age 23 in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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Biography

Thomas was the son of John and Sarah Owen. He was working as a cowman on a farm in Montgomery in the 1911 census.

He enlisted in August 1914 into the 7th Battalion the Welsh Fusiliers in Welshpool and the following year he landed at Gallipoli from where he was evacuated in December that year. They were then moved to Egypt to guard the Suez Canal. Having driven the Turks out of Sinai, they turned their attention to driving them out of Palestine.

At some point Thomas was taken prisoner of war and nothing further was heard of him

He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial

Sources

• "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9B5-9T9 : 4 January 2023), Thomas Owen in household of John Owen, Forden, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
• "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7JX-Z8B : 23 July 2019), Thomas Edwin Owen in household of Davies Davies, Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
• CWGC
• Global, Find a Grave™ Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current: Ancestry.com. Global, Find a Grave™ Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find a Grave™. Find A Grave: Memorial #22729512