Thomas Ransom was born in 1894, one of the seven children of William Edward Ransom (1859-1942) and Mary Ann Ransom née Allison (1860-1949). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1894 in the Marylebone Registration District, London.
In the 1901 census he was shown as aged 7 years and living at 26 Newnham Street (now renamed as Brendon Street), Marylebone with his parents and four of his siblings: William Henry Ransom (1884-1958) - a bricklayer; Edith Emily Ransom (1887-1977) - a dressmaker; Violet Rose Ransom (1891-1967) and Nellie Eliza Ransom (1896-1976). His father was described as a bricklayer.
When the 1911 census return form was completed by his father he was described as aged 17 years and a grocer’s errand boy, residing in three rooms at 27 Newnham Street, Marylebone, with his parents and three of his siblings: Edith Emily Ransom - a bodice dressmaker; Violet Rose Ransom - a skirt dressmaker and Nellie Eliza Ransom - an apprentice dressmaker. His father continued to describe himself as a bricklayer and stated that his wife had given birth to seven children but two of them had now died.
Electoral registers in 1918 show him listed as an absent (on military service) voter at 29 Brendon Street, Marylebone.
He had joined the Royal Field Artillery, service number 211401, and was attached to their 83rd Battery, 11th Brigade, when he died, aged 25 years, on 24 October 1919 suffering from an internal injury to his abdomen and his body was buried in Plot AA, Grave 75 at the Ramleh War Cemetery, Rabat Street, Ramla, Israel. He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal.
He is shown as ' Ransom, T.' on the Western Postal District war memorial in Mount Pleasant, London, WC1. He is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website; on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website; on the A Street Near You website and on the Royal British Legion's Every One Remembered website.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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