Tom grew up in Leicester with his father William, but moved to Filey in 1912 and became a ‘householder’ at 39, Queen Street.  At some point during the first half of the war he went back to his hometown and joined the 1^st/4^th Battalion of the Leicestershire Regt., and eventually went to the trenches with them.  He was declared Missing In Action on 2^nd July 1918 and his body was not recovered until after the end of the war, the cause of death never being specifically found and he is buried in Pernes British Cemetery.