Thomas William Winspeare Foley**

Rank:	Lieutenant
Street:
Townland:
Town/Village:	London, U.K.
Civil Parish:	Killoe
Catholic Parish:	Killoe
Country:
Alternative Address:	Killoe Rectory, Killoe; Askeaton Rectory, Co Limerick; Tralee Rectory, Co Kerry
Census 1901:	Probable entry at The Abbey School (Tipperary Grammar School) www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tipperary/Tipperary_Town/Collegeland/1719898/
Census 1911:	Resident as a boarder at 114 Tollington Park, Finsbury Park North, London
Regiment/Unit:	Leinster Regiment, 3rd Battalion (attached to the 7th Battalion)
Regiment Number:	N/A
Date of Death:	09-09-1916
Cause:	Killed in Action, Battle of Ginchy
Memorial:	Thiepval Memorial, Thiepval, Somme, France
Information:	Thomas was born in Killoe Rectory on the 19 July 1882, to Rev. William Malcolm Foley the then Rector of St Catherine's Killoe, and Elizabeth Pauline Hackett, who sadly died shortly after Thomas's birth. William later remarried Josephine Maude Clarke, the mother of Thomas's younger siblings, and the family moved to Limerick and later Mayo and Louth. By 1901, we believe Thomas was a student at Tipperary Grammar School (now the Abbey CBS), before obtaining a degree in Dublin, (likely Trinity College Dublin). By 1911 Thomas was living in Finsbury Park, London and working as a teacher in a secondary school. It appears that he was a cadet with the University of London Officer Training Corps prior to entering war service in May 1916. In September 1916 Thomas was attached to the 7th Leinsters from the 3rd Battalion, and was serving at Givenchy in France, when he went missing-in-action, later presumed killed-in-action during the Battle of Ginchy, east of Guillemont. Thomas married Monmouth-born Zélie Louise Elizabeth Chollet, in mid-1915 near Hampstead, London; they had one known child together, Sheila (aka Sheelah) Winspeare Foley, born in November 1916.
Parents Names:	Son of Archdeacon William Malcolm Foley, of Drumcar Rectory, Dunleer, County Louth and Elizabeth Pauline (née Hackett)
Notes:	Included in the IrelandsGreatWarDead.ie database Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached the 7th Battalion Born: Granard, County Longford Enlisted: Next of Kin: Son of Archdeacon William Malcolm Foley, of Drumcar Rectory, Dunleer, County Louth (formerly of The Rectory, Tralee, County Kerry, and Doonfeely, Ballycastle. County Mayo) and the late Elizabeth Foley, husband of Zelie Louise Elisabeth Foley (died at Warminster in 1970) of Hazelgrove, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire. Grave or Memorial: Pier and Face 16 C.
Links:	Link to CWGC entry; link to Civil Record of Birth (please ensure web address ends in .pdf); Find A Death entry (with photo); Ireland's Calendar of Wills index;