McElvogue Thomas Pte 4456056
Personnel Entry
Name McElvogue Thomas Eyre (Ayre?)
Army number 4456056
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Birth registered Q3 1914 in Gateshead.
Age 29 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date as yet but his Number suggests Spring 1939. Posted to the 9th Battalion? Posted to the 12th Battalion? Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. Listed on the Battalion Acquittance Roll 10/5/1940. Served Iceland. Transferred to the Corps of Military Police 25/5/41, Auth: Part II 1 TS 45/41, Auth:- Iceland ( C) HQ 777/AQ/3 31/5/41. Posted to the 49th Division Provost Company. Transferred back to the Black Watch (1TS). Returned to the UK. "Found deceased" on a road - understood to have DIED as a result of an accident 13/6/43, reference CAS/BW/6 No. 40 1 TS 39/43. Subsequent inquest report indicated he had died in hospital as a result of sustaining injuries while riding his motorcycle. Not known if anyone else was involved. The accident took place at Velindre - near Cardiff - and his widow is reported as having identified the body.
Company/Battery HQ Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Signal Platoon.
Task or role Despatch Rider.
Joined Brigade Probably 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not as far as is known, other than those injuries which lead to his death.
Prisoner of War No.
Died/Killed in action His death was registered in Q2 1943 in Camarthen. A brief death notice was published in the "Welshman" Camarthen on 18/6/1943. A report of his Requiem Mass was included in the Blaydon Courier on 26/6/1943. Died in hospital 13-Jun-43 Buried Grave 230, Section S, Blaydon Cemetery. Headstone inscription is "R.I.P."
Home address Son of Matthew (1886 - 1966) and Jane (1888 - 1956) McElvogue. In the 1921 Census the family is living at 20 Back Thomas Street, Blaydon and Thomas is 7 years 10 months. Husband of Mona (nee Mordue 1912 - 1987) McElvogue, Blaydon-on-Tyne. The couple, who married at Gateshead in April 1933, lived at 115, George Street, Blaydon.
Source table 1TS
