Blackmore. Remembering Joseph Thomas

Joseph Thomas
War Memorial: Place and inscription War Memorial: Bishops Stortford
Rank: Private
Regiment: 1st / 1st Staffordshire Yeomanry. Service No: 301803.  [CWGC]
Service Details: Joseph Thomas Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps), Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment).  Born Blackmore. Enlisted Reading, Berkshire. Residence Bishops Stortford (military-genealogy.com)
Personal and family information: Husband of E. M. Thomas, of Plantains Wood, Bishop's Stortford. [CWGC] Births Sep 1887:  Thomas, Joseph Ongar 4a  297 [Free BMD] No record of baptism at St Laurence, Blackmore.  Other Thomas baptisms, older siblings: 1st May 1881:  Richard son of Henry Richard & Mary Thomas. 1st June 1884:  John son of Henry Richard & Mary Thomas [ERO D/P 266/1/11]. Death of father: Henry Richard Thomas   Blackmore   (buried) 21st April 1899   46 years.  No record of mother’s burial 1893 – 1992 in Blackmore register. [Burial Register in Church Safe] William James and James Joseph Thomas, farmers at Hook’s End.  They are not in the 1901 census. [Kellys Directory 1908] 1881 Census: Henry R. Thomas age 28, Head. Spouse's name: Mary E., both born: Ingatestone living Blackmore, Hooks End. Occupation, Hay Dealer, with children William H. Thomas 3 (born Ingatestone), Ada Thomas 2 (born Ingatestone), Richard Thomas infant (born Blackmore). 1891 Census. Kelvedon Hatch Henry Thomas.  Head.  Married.  [Age] 39.  Hay Dealer.  [Born]  Ingatestone Essex Emily Thomas.  Wife.  Married. [Age] 35.  [Born] Ingatestone Essex Ada Thomas.  Daughter.  [Age] 12.  [Born] Ingatestone Essex Richard Thomas.  Son.  [Age] 10.  [Born] Blackmore Essex William Thomas.  Son.  [Age] 8.  [Born] Blackmore Essex John Thomas.  Son.  [Age] 6.  [Born] Blackmore Essex Elizabeth Thomas.  Daughter.  [Age] 5.  [Born] Blackmore Essex Joseph Thomas.  Son.  [Age] 4.  [Born] Blackmore Essex Charles Thomas.  Son.  [Age] 2.  [Born] Blackmore Essex [source: http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/kelvedonhatch/census_1891.html] 1901 Census. Joseph Thomas, age 13, is houseboy to Douglas Crossman at Dudbrook. Clare Goodwin, a descendant who confirmed the above details for Joseph wrote “I have also been led to believe that my grandfather John Thomas may have also served in the same Regiment. I can find no official records of this though.”
Date of Death: 14th October 1918
Age: 31
Where died: Egypt
Place of Burial or Commemoration: Remembered with honour: Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. F229 [CWGC]
List of Sources: Church Safe with grateful acknowledgment to the Vicar and churchwardens, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Essex Record Office, Free BMD, Clare Goodwin: a descendant of the Thomas family, History House, Kelly’s Directory 1908, Soldiers who Died in the Great War.