Every Name a Story
On the Arras Memorial, France is the name of 37733 Corporal Thomas Dance, serving with the 25th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers who died 23/03/1918.
Margaret Allison states that his address in 1911 was 75 Sycamore Street, Ashington and that he was 29 years of age when he died.
Soldiers Died in the Great War gives his service number as 37773, and states that he formerly served with the Northern Cyclist Battalion with the service number 1198.
Thomas Dance is remembered in Ashington on A17.01 (A11.27), and A17.43 and on A17.08