Photo: Dorothy Hall
In Beamish Museum is a coloured photograph 18 inches high x 14 inches wide in a frame 25 inches high x 21 ins wide of Private Pascoe. It is a pre-printed picture on which the personal details and photo can be added.
In the top right hand corner is a verse which reads:
This Flag the Hope of Future Years
Baptised in Blood and Widows' tears
O'er all the World shall be unfurled.
The Nations then shall work in Peace
Greed, Envy and Oppression cease.
And Love not Terror
Rule the World
Underneath the photo is:
His King and Country Called Him, The Call was not in Vain. On Britain's Roll of Honour you'll find This Hero's Name
Pri. Pascoe 53633.
1st Field Ambulance Medical Unit
Royal Naval Division.
Thomas was the son of Mrs Charles Blake and husband of Elizabeth Pascoe of Peggy's Wicket, Beamish.
In 1911 he was an underground coal miner, an engine plate man, aged 29 years, living at 5 Wood Row, Beamish (2 rooms) with his wife Elizabeth, aged 33, to whom he had been married for 9 years, and daughter Mary Clark Pascoe aged 9.
In Pelton Cemetery there is a headstone for Henderson which includes- Thomas died of wounds in France son in law of Robert and Margaret Henderson Pelton Cottage Pelton Fell
Thomas Pascoe is remembered at Beamish on B163.01 and B162.02 and at West Pelton on W112.01
