Colin Boyd has provided the following:
Thomas was born on 2nd December 1896. He was working as a miner living with his father, George at 9, Sixth Avenue, Wallsend when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division on 5th January 1915.
He joined the Howe Battalion in Gallipoli on 18th July 1915 and was hospitalised on 1st November 1915 with Pyrexia.
Thomas rejoined the Howe Battalion on 26th January 1916 and was hospitalised again in France on 15th October 1916 this time with an abscess on the left leg and Scabies.
After rejoining the Howe Battalion on 1st December 1916 Thomas was killed in action during a raid on an enemy trench on 20th July 1917.
Thomas William Smith is remembered in Wallsend on W7.04 and W7.19 page 20
