Royal Army Medical Corps, Service no. 62492.
Born: 1895. Died: 1965.
Story
Tommy was the son of Thomas Biscomb and Elizabeth Clayton. On 30th June 1916, the Castleford & Pontefract Express printed the following letter sent by Tommy.
A Kippax solider in Mesopotamia.
Mr W. Bellerby, treasurer of the Kippax Soldiers and Sailors Comforts fund, has received a letter from Private T. Biscomb R.A.M.C. acknowledging a gift from the fund. Writing from the Indian Expeditionary Force 23rd Stationary Hospital on 21st May, he says that he had not seen any beer for four months, and they could not get any English cigarettes at a reasonable price, so he had got some with the money which had been sent out to him. He considers it would do the conscientious objectors a bit of good to go out here. “We have a bit to put up with, what with the water, the heat, and the flies. It takes one all his time to keep in good health. We are having 109 degrees in the shade and it has not got to summer time yet. We hope to be with you by Christmas, and one of our boys has laid £2 to £1 that this campaign will be over by the end of June, so you can guess what the Turks are getting like. I think they are beaten any day.” On 11th July 1916, less than two weeks after this letter had been printed, Tommy’s brother Charles committed suicide in the same Mesopotamia campaign. After the War, Tommy married in Kippax on 10th March 1923, to Annie Morley, 5 years after his brother James had married Annie’s older sister May Morley. Tommy and Annie lived at 4 Park Avenue, and moved to 42 Birch Drive. Tommy passed away on 13th January 1965, and is buried in Kippax with Annie.
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