Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Private Thomas Henry George Reid. He was born late in 1890, the son of Thomas Harrison Reid and Eliza Jane Reid, née Burrows, in Paddington. His father was a stoker for an electric light company. He was baptised on 1 February 1891 at St Marks Church, Hamilton Terrace, Marylebone and the family were living at 25 Elgin Terrace, Paddington. The 1891 census shows him, aged four months old, living there with his parents and two elder sisters, Emily Matilda Reid and Ann Mary Reid. His mother died in early 1894 and his father remarried on 6 August 1894 at St Mary’s Church, West Kensington, to Harriet Flora Adams Prior. They lived at 10 North End Road, West Kensington. The 1901 census shows him with them at 4 Pretoria Terrace, Wolseley Road, Acton. The 1911 census records them living at 4 Elthorne Villas, Thornton Road, Hounslow and Thomas H.G. Reid was shown as a Railway Carriage Cleaner, District Railway.
During World War I he was a private with the 2nd Cavalry Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, service number 491, and he entered his Theatre of War on 19 August 1914. He became an Acting Corporal, but had to revert to Private on his return to the UK on 11 December 1917. In early 1918 he married Maud Boatman in Hartismere, Suffolk.
Following the war, he was awarded the 1914 Star, the British War Medal 1914-1918, the Victory Medal and the General Service Medal with clasps for Iraq & N.W. Persia. The 1928 electoral register shows him and his wife living at 65 Ravenswood Road, S.W.12. In April 1929 he was appointed as a Porter with the London Postal Service, West London, and the 1932 electoral register has them still living at 65 Ravenswood Road. The 1935 electoral register shows that they had moved to 47, Cambridge Road, W.6.
During World War II he was a Private in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, service number 7250632, and he died on 6 July 1944, aged 53 years, at the Army Depot, North Woolwich, West Ham. He was buried in Grave 44719 at Streatham Park Cemetery, Rowan Road, Streatham Vale, London. There was no headstone so he is commemorated there on Square 24 of the Cross of Sacrifice’s Screen Wall. Probate records show that at the time he was residing at 17 Northbourne Road, Clapham Park and that administration of his estate was granted to his widow. His effects totalled £350-12s-6d.
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