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216425Spr. Thomas Melvin
British Army Durham Fortress Company Royal Engineers
(d.4th Nov 1918)
Thomas Melvin served in Durham Fortress Company, Royal Engineers and died on the 4th November 1918. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church and is buried in Jarrow Cemetery. His medal card records the award of the War and Victory Medals. It also records that he retired from the Territorial Force under Kings Regulations 1923 ref 8426/Adjutant. So he may have retired on medical grounds and died at home.Thomas was born in Jarrow 1895, son of Robert and Annie Melville nee Dunleavy of 11 Dunn Street, Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family is living at that address with Robert(63) a dock labourer - shipbuilding and his wife of 23 years Annie(43). They had 10 children, 9 survived and all are single and living at home. James(22)a fruit merchants clerk, Robert(18) ships painter and Thomas(16) a rivetter heater. The remaining children are at or below school age, Mary Ann(11), Annie(8), Catherine(5), Julia(3) and Marie is 10 months old. His older brother Robert was also one of the fallen.
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