Personal Details of Thomas Arthur Maccabee
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| Buried: | 05/03/1920 |
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Commonwealth War Grave
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| Name: | Thomas Arthur Maccabee |
| Service: | 2/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment |
| Service number: | 201125 |
| Rank: | Corporal (T/Sgt) |
| Date of death: | 01/03/1920 |
| Age at death: | 31 |
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| Link to West Berkshire Memorials entry: | Click Here |
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Burial Register
| Name at death | Thomas Arthur Maccabee | ||||||
| Age at Death | 31 | ||||||
| Burial Date | 05 March 1920 | ||||||
| Abode |
Roseleigh, Wash Common
Newbury |
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| Official at Burial | Charles.V. Pike | ||||||
| Comments | Died at Pavilion Military Hospital, Brighton | ||||||
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Burial Register entry for Thomas Arthur Maccabee
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Burial Register Entry for Thomas Arthur Maccabee
Memorial Details
| East facing kerbstone and forces stone: In Loving Memory of/Thomas A. Maccabee who died March 1st. 1920 aged 32./ Forces stone: 101125 Corporal/ T.A.Maccabee/ Royal Berkshire Regiment/ Here reunited with his/ father and mother. Also remembering R.J. Maccabee/ died France 4 Dec. 1917/ North kerbstone: Also of Elizabeth, wife of Henry Maccabee, who was called home Jan. 14th. 1939 aged 78 years./ West facing kerbstone: In Loving Memory of/ Henry Maccabee who passed away Feb. 13th 1934 aged 76 years/ South facing kerbstone: And of Reginald J. Maccabee who died Dec.4th. 1917 aged 23 years. | |
| Name on Memorial | Thomas Henry Maccabee |
| Date of death | 01/03/1920 |
| Age | 32 |
| Gender | Male |
| Memorial Type | 4 kerbstones, 2 vases and forces stone |
| Construction Material | Marble |
| Condition of memorial | Painted letters, excellent |
| Pattison Location Code | LS(G)36 |
| Recorder's Notes | Note: Reginald J. Maccabee died in France but is remembered on this monument. |
| Others named on memorial | |
| Elizabeth Maccabee | |
| Henry Maccabee | |
| Reginald Joseph Maccabee |
Newspaper Cuttings
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Reginald Maccabee
| Source: | Newbury Weekly News |
| Article date: | 03/01/1918 |
| Copyright: | R J Maccabee courtesy of Jeremy Goff |
| Transciption: | REGINALD MACCABEE (brother of Thomas Arthur)
DIED OF WOUNDS
MACCABEE - Dec. 4, died of wounds received on 3rd in the Cambrai battle, Corpl. R.F. Maccabee, of the 2/4th Royal Berks. Regt., fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Maccabee, of Roseleigh, Wash Common, aged 24 years.
He sleeps beside his comrades
In a hallowed grave unknown:
But his name is written in letters of love
In the hearts he left at home.
May the heavenly winds blow softly
O’er the sweet and hallowed spot,
Tho’ the sea divides his grave from us,
He will never be forgot.
Grave at
VIII. B. 5. , ROCQUIGNY-EQUANCOURT ROAD BRITISH CEMETERY, MANANCOURT |
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Reginald Maccabee
©R J Maccabee courtesy of Jeremy Goff
Reginald Maccabee
Thomas Arthur Maccabee
| Source: | Newbury Weekly News |
| Article date: | 11/03/1920 |
| Copyright: | Newbury Weekly News |
| Transciption: | THOMAS ARTHUR MACCABEE 100 years ago March 11 1920 Soldier dies of wounds The sad death of Sergt. T A Maccabee, second son of Mr and Mrs H Maccabee, of Roseleigh, Wash Common, as the result of shockingly severe injuries sustained whilst serving in France during the war, occurred on March 1st, at the Pavilion General Hospital, Brighton. Deceased joined the army as a private in the 2/4th Royal Berks Regiment in November, 1914, and was in training at Chelmsford and other camps, until drafted to France in May 1916 Promoted to the rank of sergeant, he was a favourite with his men, and took part in many engagements with the enemy. Early in 1917 he was gassed and suffered with trench fever, which necessitated a stay in hospital. He was badly wounded in the battle of Cambrai in December 1917, and lay on the Battlefield for three days and nights with legs shattered by the explosion of a shell Upon arrival at a dressing station he was found to be suffering from frost-bitten fingers, and upon his removal to the 3rd General Australian Hospital at Abbeville it was found imperative to amputate both legs and seven fingers. He was transferred to Roehampton to be supplied with artificial limbs. His wounds, however continued to cause pain, and he was sent to the Pavilion Hospital, Brighton, for further operations. He returned to Roehampton in January n1919, and two months later paid his first visit to Newbury since going abroad. He was then discharged from the army, but was continually under treatment and early this year again went to Brighton, when two most dangerous operations were performed on February 8th. His parents remained with him for ten days, when his condition had improved and he seemed out of danger. On February 27th haemorrhage set in, and the patient collapsed, and his parents were present with him when he passed away. Deceased had had nineteen operations, all of which he had borne with remarkable patience and fortitude. His age was 31, and he had four brothers all serving with him in France at the same time. His body was conveyed to his home on March 3rd and he was buried on Friday afternoon last. Fourteen men of the Royal Berks Regiment from Reading escorted the funeral cortege from Wash Common to the Baptist Church, Northbrook Street. The procession returned up Northbrook Street in slow and solemn order, and proceeded to the cemetery in Newtown Road, where six soldiers carried the coffin, covered with the Union Jack
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Grave as originally found, before its recognition as a CWG and before our appeal for contact from the family.
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Biographical Information
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Maccabee Family
The Maccabee Family
We have already described the Family grave of the Maccabee family because Corporal Thomas Maccabee, a soldier in the First World War, is buried there as well as his parents, Henry and Elizabeth. Thomas died a few years after the end of the War of wounds received in battle and, therefore, his grave has been nominated as a Commonwealth War Grave.
Both his parents, Henry and Elizabeth, are also buried there (grave ref LS(G)36) and there is a memorial to another son, Reginald, who, died of wounds suffered in the same battle as his brother.
They also had three other sons, William Henry, Sidney Frank and Montague Albert, who fought in the Great War but all survived. They are not interred at Newtown Road Cemetery
In another area of the Cemetery are buried their sons Edward, who died in 1913 at the age of 22 and Stanley Walter, who died in 1902 at the age of 8 months. (Grave ref P(J)26).
The family were from Wash Common where the father, Henry, was a painter and glazier.
Author: Doug Larsen
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