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Cpl. Thomas Elliott Slack
British Army 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
(d.29th Jan 1915)
Thomas Slack died aged 22, he was born in Jarrow in 1892 son of John and Margaret Jane Slack (nee Elliott) of Jarrow. On the 1911 Censushe is listed as Thomas Slack. age 19, a Ship Builder's Machine Worker, living with his parents John & Margaret Slack & family at 32, Prince Consort Road, Jarrow. He first served in France from on the 28th of December 1914.
Thomas is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow. He was also commemorated on a brass plaque with six others, which hung in the porch of St. John's Wesleyan Church St. John’s Terrace, Jarrow The plaque was engraved by Mr. M. Hamilton of Jarrow (aged 80 years) The church was demolished in 1964. (It is not known what happened to the brass plaque)
