CHEVERTON, THOMAS BIRD. M.C. Major.
Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force).
Died 24 March 1918.
Born Newport, Isle of Wight.
Son of Richard B. Cheverton and Elizabeth S. Cheverton.
Husband of Mrs. Helena Cheverton (née Seamer) of Old Ferry Lodge, Wrotham,
Sevenoaks, Kent.
Commemorated on the Pozières Memorial, Somme, France. Panel 7.
Formerly Sergeant, 1356, 28th (County of London) London Regiment (Artists
Rifles). Thomas was commisioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field
Artillery (Territorial Force) on 22 April 1915; he was posted to France on 3 July
1916. Notification of Thomas’s elevation from Lieutenant to Acting Major was
published in a Supplement of The London Gazette, dated 3 June 1918.
Thomas’s widow later resided at 13, Fosse Road, Tonbridge, Kent.