In Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France is the Commonwealth War Grave of TZ/5317 Able Seaman Thomas Foster Brewis, serving with the Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who died 03/05/1917.

The son of Thomas and Sarah Ann Brewis.

Colin Boyd submits the following:-
Thomas was born on the 23rd February 1890. He was working as a shoemaker when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division on the 13th June 1915 and he arrived in France on 27th February 1917.

Thomas died in the 30th Casualty Clearing Station on the 3rd May 1917 from gun shot wounds to the back and chest received on the 24th April 1917 and he is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension.

At the time of his enlistment he was living at 4a, Park Avenue, Whitley Bay.

Thomas Foster Brewis is remembered in Whitley Bay on W84.01 and in W84.30 page 18.