Monday 2 March 2015

Cawthorne, Methodist Church, Thomas Richard Allott Memorial Tablet

Memorial to Thomas Richard Allott in Cawthorne Methodist Church
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Lives of the First World War

Photograph by Pete Schofield

Inscription: 

In Loving Memory of / Sec. Lieut. Thomas R. Allott / Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry / The devoted husband of Olive Allott  / and who died of wounds in France / Nov. 4th 1918 - aged 30 years / Organist of this Church / For 9 years.

Thomas Allott and other Cawthorne soldiers are mentioned in a piece in issue 31, Autumn 2014, of Memories of Barnsley.


Thomas is also remembered on the
Cawthorne War Memorial, Cawthorne Museum, Taylor Hill, Cawthorne and the Barnsley, Holgate Grammar School Old Boys - WW1 Memorial 

He is buried in Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension in France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. 



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