Notes
The Roll lists his address as 56 Fletton Avenue. It wrongly records his date of death as 31 July 1914.
(CWGC records that Serjeant T Eustace DCM, regimental number 7925, died on 31/7/1915, and is buried in grave II.B.7 at St Vaast Post Military Cemetery at Richebourg-Lavoue in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as "Thomas John Eustace" DCM, that he died on 31/1915, having been born at St Botolph's in Colchester, and that he was living in Peterborough when he enlisted. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record him as Thomas John Eustace, and that his sole legatee was his sister-in-law, Mrs Winifred D Eustace. On the 1911 census he was Private Thomas John Eustace, aged 22, serving in the 2nd Bedfordshire Regiment. His birth as "Thomas John H Eustace" was registered in Colchester in 1888. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents, Thomas and Elizabeth, in St Botolph's parish in Colchester. His obituary appeared on 7/8/1915 in the Peterborough Advertiser which stated that, while visiting Mr & Mrs Newell recently at Fletton Avenue, he had shown the newspaper the letter dated May 1915 from his C.O. commending him for his actions on 16/5/1915. The citation for his DCM for gallantry on 16/5/1915 at Festubert was published in the Edinburgh Gazette on 13/8/1915: Page 1221; Issue 12841).