This site commemorates the men and women of Collingham, Linton and Micklethwaite who served during World War 1. Today we especially commemorate Captain Eric Donaldson of the 1st London Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps who died on this day in 1970.
Harland, Thomas Edmonds
(1896-1983)

Rank and Unit at End of World War One

Rank Private

Service Number M2/116096

Service Army

Battalion

Regiment Royal Army Service Corps

Biography

Thomas Edmonds Harland was born in Leeds in 1897, the son of Thomas Michael and Mary Helen Harland and the elder brother of James Pullan Harland. Mary had been born in Linton, but in 1911, the family were living at 216 Harehills Avenue, Leeds where Thomas was a laundryman.

By 1918, and again in 1919, Thomas appeared on the Collingham absent voters list due to Naval or Military service. He served as a Private, service number M2/116096, in the Royal Army Service Corps.

After the war, Thomas returned to the UK and continued in the laudry industry. In 1939 he was living at "Willow Bank" on the Leeds Road in Otley where his occupation was given as Laundry Proprietor. He was living with his wife, Mary H Harland and children.

Thomas' brother, James Pullan Harland, also served in the Great War and survived, and his sister, Dora Mary Harland, served in the Voluntary Aid Detachment.

Sources

First World War Medal Index Cards. The National Archives (WO372).
First World War Medal Index Rolls. The National Archives (WO329).

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