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13658   Lance Corporal Thomas Gault
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Dated added: 30/12/2015   Last updated: 15/03/2021
Personal Details
Regiment/Service: 9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth: 29/02/1896
Died: 01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age: 20
Summary      
Thomas Gault was the eldest son of James and Mary Gault. He was born on 29th February 1896 in Clogher. He was one of eight children, seven surviving. The family lived in the Clogher area. Lance Corporal Thomas Gault was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on Saturday 1st July 1916.
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Cemetery Details
Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial
  Thiepval, Somme
Grave Ref: Face 4D-5B
CWGC Casualty 747910
Summary      
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
Local Memorial Details

No Memorial Name Townland
1 Clogher War Memorial - WWI - South West Face - Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Clogher
2 St. Macartan's Cathedral Tablet - WWI Clogher
References and Links
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1 1901 Census lists Gault family Lists Thomas as age 5 at house 5 in Ballycoholan, Cullamore, Tyrone
2 1911 Census lists Gault family Lists Thomas as age 15 at house 2 in Corick, Cloghan, Tyrone
3 Family Tree Gives Thomas Gault's date of birth
4 National Archives UK Medal Card can be purchased here
5 Townlands.ie Freughmore, Clogher
Dungannon District's War Dead Acknowledgements 2015-2023