Thomas Porter
Sergeant M2/046569
15th Div. Train, Army Service Corps
Division 7
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Sergeant Thomas Porter is remembered on the grave of his parents Henry and Rosanna Porter who died in 1922 and 1948 respectively. The commemoration states ‘Died of Wounds in France’. The Berkshire Family History Society classification number is 7A15. There are no family details in the CWGC information. A picture from Berkshire and the War gives the home address as 36 Sherman Road, Reading.
The 1911 census indicates that Thomas and his wife Blanche and son Denis then aged 1 year were living with his parents at 4 Sherman Road. Thomas was a furniture porter his father worked at the biscuit factory.
Thomas Porter died of wounds on 18th July 1917, aged 26. He is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais. Grave reference IV.A.35.
Boulogne was one of the three Base ports most used by the British Armies during the war. Boulogne and Wimereux formed one of the chief hospital areas. Thomas Porter was probably wounded some distance away from Boulogne.