Thomas Henry Finchett

Maynamati War Cemeterycommemoration on the Rosset War Memorial

Thomas (Henry) Finchett.

Personal Details:

Born in Allingon, Denbigshire (Nr. Wrexham) on 22nd March 1916. Aged 29.

Baptised on 24 April 1916 in the Parish of Rossett.

The son of Charles & Sarah (Nee Morby) Finchett.

Husband of Dorothy Wynne (Nee Rowlands) and father to Dorothy E.

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Military Details:

Regiment:           2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment.

Rank:                 Private.

Serial Number:   14657839.

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Record of Death:

Died of Pneumonia in Burma  on 12th April 1945. Aged 29.

Buried in Maynamati War Cemetery Bangladesh. 3. D. 4.

Commemorated on the Rosset War Memorial as Henry T. Finchett along with his brother Ernest Finchett.

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Further Information:

The 1939 census records Dorothy Wynne, 16 years old as a dairy maid living in Wrexham Road, Malpas.

Thomas was living at No. 1  Sunnyside at the time of his death.

His brother Ernest was also killed in action in WW2,and is commemorated along with Henry Thomas on the Rosset War Memorial.

Thomas's  occupation is recorded as a bricklayer.

There were 10 children in total in the Finchett Family; Thomas Henry being the ninth.

Pte Thomas Henry Finchett (29) husband of Mrs Rose Finchett.

Photographs of the grave of Thomas Henry Finchett