Lance Corporal Tom Dunderdale

Tom Dunderdale was the son of Joseph Abbott Dunderdale and Mary Elizabeth Yates. He was born in 1895 in either Thorne or Keadby nr Scunthorpe, I am not sure. He joined the army and fought in the first world war. He was a Lance Corporal 9865 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. While he was fighting in Gallipoli, Turkey he was killed, aged 20 years old. He is remembered with honour on the Helles Memorial Gallipoli, and on the war memorial at Althorpe a small village near Keadby.

The inscription on the memorial says

In Memory of

Lance Corporal Tom Dunderdale

9865, 6th Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment

Who died age 20

On 07 August 1915

Lance Corporal Dunderdale, son of Joseph Abbott Dunderdale and Mary Elizabeth Dunderdale, of Station Rd., Keadby, Lincs.

The war Memorial at Althorpe where Tom Dunderdale's name appears