Osmington History: WW1 100 Years on

Sunday, 4 November 2018

Name	George Shiner Thomas
Address	Allen Cottage, Osmington
Date of Birth Place	1881 Sydling St Nicholas, Dorset
Date of Death Place	30/3/1917 Egypt
Family Info	Son of William and Mary Ann Thomas, of Osmington, Weymouth; husband of Olive Mabel Hardy Brett, of Roman Cottage, Preston, Weymouth. He married Olive in September 1915 in Preston. William and Mary Ann had 5 children both girls died as children and George in the war. Mary Jane b. 1864 Elizabeth Lucy b. 1868 John James b.1871 William George b.1875 George Shiner b.1879
Military Information: Killed March 1917 Royal Engineers 10^th Division Signal Coy Driver Service number: 13862
Further Information: Buried at PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY Malta, which is just outside of Valletta. From the spring of 1915, the hospitals and convalescent depots established on Malta and Gozo dealt with over 135,000 sick and wounded, chiefly from the campaigns in Gallipoli and Salonika. Before the war he was a mason’s labourer George’s widow Olive remarried in 1932 to John Hawkins a local Postman, they lived near Seven Acres in Preston. She died in 1973 aged 84 years.

Caroline Williams9 July 2020 at 11:58
A small correction. Mary Jane Thomas, my great grandmother did not die young. She married William Henry Dubbin who was a policeman in the Dorset constabulary. At one time he was the "bobby" in Sydling, and they resided in Jasmine Cottage and finally at Allen Cottages when he had retired, where he reverted to his previous occupation as a shoemaker,I recall my grandmother telling me that her Uncle Bill brother to George Shiner Thomas, lived in either Osmington or Preston, and he trained sheepdogs for 10 guineas------if the new owner could not get on with the dog, he took the dog back, and refunded the money
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