10th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
03/04/1898
Died:
07/06/1917 (Killed in Action)
Age:
19
Summary
Thomas Winton was the second son of John and Mary Winton. He was born on 3rd April 1898 in Tobermore. He was one of six children. His father was a farm labourer. Thomas’ mother, Mary Winton, died three weeks after the birth of their sixth child. when Thomas was 10 years old. By 1911 Thomas was a servant for the Kelly family in Tobermore. Private Thomas Winton was serving with the 10th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on France and Flanders on Thursday 7th June 1917.
Further Information
Thomas Winton was the second son of John and Mary Winton. John Winton married Mary Martin on 19th April 1894 in the district of Magherafelt.
Thomas Winton was born on 3rd April 1898 in Tobermore. He was one of six children.
Family: John Winton, Mary Winton, Mathew Winton (born 21st February 1896), Thomas Winton (born 3rd April 1898), Edward Winton (born 16th March 1900), Annie Winton (born 11th June 1902), Maggie Winton (born 12th April 1907), John Winton (born 3rd December 1908).
The 1901 census lists Thomas as age 3 living with the family at house 94 in Tobermore, County Londonderry. His father was a farm labourer.
Thomas’ mother, Mary Winton, died three weeks after the birth of their sixth child. She died on 22nd December 1908 in the district of Magherafelt, aged 32. Thomas was 10 years old.
A year later, on 14th January 1910, his father remarried. John Winton married Lucy Hazlett on 14th January 1910 in the district of Magherafelt.
The 1911 census lists Thomas as age 13, a servant for the Kelly family at house 23 in Mormeal, Tobermore. In fact, only Annie is recorded as living with Thomas’ father and new wife.
Thomas enlisted in Londonderry.
Private Thomas Winton was serving with the 10th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on France and Flanders on Thursday 7th June 1917.
Private Thomas Winton has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Thomas’s brother, Mathew Winton, also served. Private Mathew Winton also served with the 10th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He was wounded but survived the war. He married Mary Ann Marton on 25th June 1917.
The CWGC record Private Thomas Winton was the son of John and Mary Winton (nee Martin), of Main Street, Tobermore, County Derry.
