IRVING, Thomas James

Private, 2nd Batt., Border Regiment

Service No: 21568

Died: 01/07/1916
Age: 47

    

Remembered on Thiepval Memorial

Remembered on family memorial in Bangor Cemetery

Thomas was born in 1868 in Annan, Dumfrieshire, to James Irving, a joiner and his wife Isabella who hailed from Broughton in Cumbria. 

The third of their four sons, Thomas grew up in Cumbria, and on leaving school gained employment as an Iron Moulder.

He moved to Belfast in 1891 and, in November 1892, he married Martha Johnston, a widow, and they were living with Martha's daughter and sister in Upper Meadow Street, Belfast, in 1901. Sadly Martha passed away at their home in Moneyrea Street in 1906.

Thomas's brother Lester had also moved to Ireland and was working as a carpenter in Bangor when he married Annie barbour in 1898. On the death of their mother, their father James moved to live with Lester in Bingham Street, Bangor, and it was there he died in 1907.

It was Lester's address that Thomas gave when he enlisted.