Thomas Scatchard was killed in action on this day in 1914
Thomas was born on 6 July 1878 in Boston Spa, Yorkshire.
His parents were Thomas Edward Scatchard, a general practitioner and, later, surgeon, and his wife, Martha Scatchard née Theakston.
Thomas had 4 older siblings - Mary Emma (b.1862), Marianne (b.1872), James Percival (b.1873) and Robert Edward (b.1876).
The family lived on the Main Road in Boston Spa with a live-in cook and housemaid.
Thomas was educated, as a boarder, at the Royal Medical Benevolent College in Epsom, founded in 1855 as a school for the sons of medical professionals.
In 1901, age 22, Thomas boarded as a medical student in Leeds.
On 31 January 1905, he was gazetted Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and joined his regiment at Aldershot where he served 18 months before proceeding to India.
He served in India for nearly six years, being stationed in Lucknow, Agra, Kailana and Ranikhet. On 12 November 1907, he married Ada May Fane-Hervey in Agra. Ada was born in the Punjab and brought up in India. A year later, on 20 December 1908, they had a daughter Phyllis May Lindsay. Whilst in Agra, on 31 January 1909, Thomas was promoted Captain.
In 1911, the family was living at the Station Military Hospital in Ranikhet.
He returned to England and served a 9 month course at Millbank for promotion to Major. He was then stationed at Connaught Hospital in Aldershot where he was when war broke out in 1914.
He went to France on 16 August 1914 with the 26th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (RFA).
On 8 September, he was killed in action near Sablonnières.
He is buried in Bellot Communal Cemetery, Seine-et-Marne in France.
Captain Thomas Scatchard, Royal Army Medical Corps