Current Information:

Age-23

Military Medal

92, Broxash Road, Clapham Common

Roisel Communal Cemetery, France

The Field Survey Companies of the Royal Engineers, of which there were four based on the Western Front, were responsible for surveying and mapping the ground so as to facilitate attack patterns and to assist the artillery in locating their unseen targets.

Thomas Southey was killed while serving with the 3rd Field Survey Company on the Somme, on 19th August 1917 but as yet there is no further information concerning his death.