3/8564 Pte Thomas Ruddy, 3rd Bn, Yorks Regt

3/8564 Private Thomas Ruddy of the 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, died in England on the 6th October 1914. His number indicates that he joined the Special Reserve after war was declared and preumably died as a result of sickness or accident.

Thomas was born in Stockton-on-Tees around 1879 and enlisted at Middlesborough. He was the son of the late Thomas and Eliza Ruddy and he is buried in Eston Cemetery in Yorkshire.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission