Morpeth Herald 30/11/1917 carries a brief obituary:
ROLL OF HONOUR
TAIT.- Died of wounds received in action in France, September 28th, 1917, Private Thomas Tait, Australian Imperial Forces, aged 22 years and 5 months, dearly loved eldest son of Mr and Mrs James Tait, late of Chestnut Street, Ashington, and grandson of the late George and Elizabeth Mather, late of Barrington.- Deeply mourned and, oh! so sadly missed by his sorrowing father and mother and two brothers, George and Jim, Sixth Street, Weston, New South Wales, Australia.
Margaret Allison states that he was born in Ashington.
He is remembered at Ashington on A17.43
