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Private Tom Noddle, aged 25, of the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards was killed in action on 27 Aug 1918 in the vicinity of Bapaume, France. He is buried at the Croisilles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Tom was “called up” for service on 23 Jan 1916 and may have served on the Somme in 1916, probably at Ypres and Cambrai in 1917 and in the 1st and 2nd Battles of the Somme in the summer of 1918. Tom was awarded the War and Victory Medals.
Tom was born in Burton Agnes in 1893, he came from a farming family. His parents, Richard Noddle and Emma (nee Ashby), came from local families and Richard worked as a farm labourer. Tom initially went to work on the land, in the 1911 census he is recorded as the “fifth boy” on a waggoner’s team at the Hodgson farm, at Rudston. On 6 May 1913 he became an attendant at the East Riding Asylum, Broadgate, Walkington. His sister, Maud worked there as a kitchen maid whilst his older brothers, John (“Jack”) and Alfred were attendants. Tom was employed there when he joined the army.
Tom is remembered today on the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster, on the Walkington War Memorial and on the Burton Agnes War Memorial.
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