Thomas Barry Lawson, born 1890 at Sunderland, was the son of Thomas William and Mary. He was baptised 12th March 1890 at St. Barnabas Church, Hendon. His father was a Master Mariner in 1911 on a Tramp Steamer. He had siblings Joseph Raymond (1900) and Mary (1904). Two other siblings had died before 1911.
Thomas attended Bede Collegiate School in Sunderland and the July 1915 Magazine reports his death:-
Lance Corporal T.B.L. Bubb
25. Son of Capt. T.W. Bubb, Sunderland- at present engaged on Government work. Brother of Raymond Bubb, now at school. Was at Bede School until 19. Passed Oxford Local Senior Exam. Took prominent part in two Speech Day Entertainments. Founded the School Arts & Crafts Society- in its present form. Was on Committee of School Debating Society, and influential for good in various ways. Became representative of Messrs. Glaholm & Robson, Sunderland, at their London Office, and often travelled abroad. Wrote from “the front” some extremely interesting letters in which he made the relative positions of various parts of the opposing lines and trenches very intelligible by comparing them with various streets and points in and near Sunderland.
Thomas had embarked for France 18th March 1915.
Tony Wright has submitted the following information:-
War Diary of the 47th London Divisional Cyclist Company
Place: Noeux-Les-Mines; Date: 16 June 1915
Summary of Events and Information:
“CAPTAIN LEMAN, and SERGEANT PARKER, were wounded; a man of the 6th Battalion and a Lce - Cpl of the 7th Battalion were killed, -through the premature explosion of a Battye Bomb.”
The above has been cross referenced with CWGC records:Lance Corporal Bubb, Thomas Barry, Service Number 2829, Died 16/06/1915, Aged 24, 7th Bn. London Regiment
Son of Thomas William and Mary Bubb, of ‘Maison Dieu,’ Biggin St., Dover
Native of Sunderland.
Due to this and other similar accidents, by the end of 1915 the Battye Bomb (hand grenade) was superseded by the safer and more sophisticated Mills Bomb.
Thomas Barry Lawson Budd is remembered at Sunderland on S140.005 S140.017 S140.048 Part 5 S140.048 Part 14 and S140.082
