Thomas Lister
TROOPER THOMAS LISTER
d 1st February 1943 aged 32
Thomas was born on 16th August 1911 and lived in Hebden Bridge. His parents Sam (a Carter at the Railway Station, and later a Road Sweeper) and Phoebe (nee Chadwick, a mill hand) lived at 5 Buttress Bank. He went to Central Street Council School and attended Salem Methodist Church, before joining Messrs R Sutcliffe and Co, Melbourne Works, Hebden Bridge. In 1939 he was single, living with his parents and working as a Seam Presser for a Wholesale Clothier.
He signed up in 1940 with the 9th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment. The 9th Battalion was converted to the 146th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) in 1941 and was based in India. He was listed as missing in Burma in March 1943.
Thomas is buried at the Taukkyan War Cemetery, Rangoon and is commemorated in Heptonstall Churchyard, the Hebden Bridge Methodist Churches Book of Remembrance and on the Luddenden and Midgley War Memorial.