Medal Card
Tyneside Scottish
Susan Carmichael has provided the following:
Thomas Henry Logan was born in 1884, in Belfast, County Down, the son of William and Mary J Logan. His father was a blacksmith striker.
In the census of 1891 the family was living in Eglinton Street, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland. The family was now William and Mary, and six children, five sons and a daughter.
By 1901 the family had moved to 146, Chapel Street, Dalton in Furness, Ulverston, Lancashire. Thomas Henry had started work as a ship’s rivetter apprentice.
The 1911 census shows Thomas had been on the move again, and was living in 3 Spring Villa East, Sleekburn, Bedlington. He lived there with his wife Annie, his two sons, and his widowed Mother.
Thomas was working as a coal miner.
Thomas enlisted for the army at Bedlington, and is remembered on the Thiepval memorial.
Morpeth Herald 08/09/1916 carries the following:
Private T.H. Logan, Stakeford, missing.
Acknowledgments also to Derek Johnstone.
Thomas Henry Logan is remembered at Stakeford on S71.02 and in Bedlington on B15.06
