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Pte. Thomas Valentine Williams
British Army 2nd Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
(d.18th Nov 1916)
Thomas Valentine Williams died on 18th Nov 1916. This was the day that the British Commander in Chief Sir Douglas Haig called a halt to his army's offensive near the Somme River in north-western France, ending the epic Battle of the Somme after more than four months.
Val Williams was born in Monk Bretton, Yorks to Thomas and Eliza (Wheater) in 1893. He enlisted at Nottingham and was killed in action in France. Thomas is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. In the 1911 census he was 18 and a Miner Loader living at 53 Gedling Road,Carlton, Notts with his parents and siblings: Francis (16), Harold (15), Olive Cordelia (12), Gladys (9), John Lewis (8), Harry (6) and Christopher (3). An older brother, Alfred George, born in Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire c. 1881, a blacksmith in a colliery, had by then left home.
