Chubb, Thomas Wycherley

Chubb, Thomas Wycherley

Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps

Rank: Lance Corporal

Service No: 13284

Boer War service: 8 Mar 1900 to 8 Sept 1901

Date of enlistment: 19 Feb 1900

Date of discharge: 10 Sept 1901

Reason for discharge: Terms of Engagement

Other information: Thomas’s younger brother, George Alfred, was killed in the Great War and is commemorated on the Whitchurch Town memorial and the Whitchurch Grammar School memorial.

Born: 3 December 1871 in Whitewell (Iscoyd), Flintshire, Wales and baptised 10 January 1872 in Whitchurch, Shropshire.

Family: He was one of twelve children born to Thomas Taylor Chubb and his wife Elizabeth. He married Lucy Margaret Lloyd in 1911 and together they had one child.

Residence: In 1881 he was living at 80 Barkhill, Whitchurch with his parents and siblings; by 1891 he was boarding at 7 High Street, Whitchurch; this was the premises of W. Pearson, draper, to whom Thomas was apprenticed. In 1901 he was on military service in South Africa

Employment: Thomas was a draper at the time he enlisted

Death: 2nd February 1949 in Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, aged 77

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