Notes
He enrolled at Worcester College, Oxford in 1909 and the college archives add: 'Fred Thomas matriculated in 1909. He achieved first class honours in mathematical moderations in 1911, and graduated with second class honours in Mathematics in 1913. He subsequently became mathematics master at King Charles I Grammar School, Kidderminster. On the outbreak of war he obtained a commission in the 4th Battalion of the Welsh Regiment and, after a year of training, was sent to Suvla Bay where he was in the trenches for four months. In 1916 he was drafted to Egypt and then to Palestine where he was shot in the neck during the second attack on Gaza on 19 April 2017. Captain Frederick Thomas died on 21 April 1917.'