| Regiment/Service: |
109th Company, Machine Gun Corps (British Army) |
| Died: |
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action) |
| Age: |
21 |
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TO BE CONFIRMED - Thomas James Montgomery was the son of James and Margaret Anne Montgomery. Thomas was born about 1895 in Millix, Ballygawley, County Tyrone. His father was a farmer. By the time of the 1911 census, Thomas’s mother had died. Thomas worked as a farm labourer for the Cherry family in the Inishmagh, Aghnahoe, County Tyrone. Private Montgomery served for a time with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Private Thomas Montgomery was serving with the 109th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916.
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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"
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