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Pte. Thomas Hick Arnot
British Army 21st (Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle upon Tyne
(d.1st July 1916)
Thomas Arnot was my great grandfather. He volunteered in 1914 and died, aged 37, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916. He left behind his wife Emily and eight children: Ada (15), Annie (my grandmother)(13), Thomas (11), Emily (9), Edmund (7), James (6), Mary (4) and Lily (2). They lived at 46 Cookson Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. His youngest daughter Lily, (my great aunt) died in 2014 aged 100.