WOODSTOCK REMEMBERS
SERVICE RECORD
Names
Surname
PAINTING
PAINTING
Forname(s)
John Thomas
John Thomas
Birthplace
Stonesfield birth registered at Woodstock Autumn 1883
Family
Parents
George Arthur and Annie Painting.
Son of George Arthur and Annie Painting, of Old Woodstock, Oxfordshire.CWGC
Family still live in Woodstock and Tackley.
George Arthur and Annie Painting.
Son of George Arthur and Annie Painting, of Old Woodstock, Oxfordshire.CWGC
Family still live in Woodstock and Tackley.
Siblings
John, Bertram, Florence, Ernest, Celia, Lilian and Mildred (1901 Census)
John, Bertram, Florence, Ernest, Celia, Lilian and Mildred (1901 Census)
Address(es)
Old Woodstock
Occupation
John listed as working on a milk cattle farm probably at Blenheim.
In 1911 he is listed as an oddman domestic working on the Basing Estate for Lord Curzon.
In 1911 he is listed as an oddman domestic working on the Basing Estate for Lord Curzon.
Service
Rank: Rifleman
Number: 5098
Regiment: 7th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
Death
Formerly 10872 17th Lancers. Enlisted at Basingstoke.
Killed in action 16th August 1917 aged 34 at the Battle of Ypres.
Burial
Commonwealth War Grave/Memorial Tyne Cot memorial panel 138-140 and 162/162A/163A
Total identified casualties 35000
Related Imagery
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Researched by: Isabel Wheeler
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Oxfordshire/Woodstock.html
Ancestry, 'Photos credit of CWGC'. Commonwealth War Grave Commission, Memorial photograph copyright Joanne Onions, Local collection, Woodstock (Parish magazine) Oxfordshire County Museum, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock,
Local Historian Patricia Crutch.
Ancestry, 'Photos credit of CWGC'. Commonwealth War Grave Commission, Memorial photograph copyright Joanne Onions, Local collection, Woodstock (Parish magazine) Oxfordshire County Museum, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock,
Local Historian Patricia Crutch.
