BOND, Thomas George

Thomas was born 1916 in East London to Thomas George & Florence BOND. He married Doris May COX in 1941 at St. Paul's Church, Barton in Newport. Doris was living at 24a Victoria Road, Newport at the time of Thomas’ death with their young son.

Thomas Died of Wounds four days after wounding, aged 28, on the 20th of May 1944 at a Casualty Clearing Station received at the Fourth Battle of Monte Cassino (Operation Diadem). He was originally buried near to where he died & his body was later exhumed, by No.3 Section New Zealand Graves Concentration Unit & reburied on the 28th of February 1945. Thomas is buried at the Cassino War Cemetery in Italy beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE”. Thomas rests alongside over 4,000 of his Second World War comrades, of whom 289 are still to be identified.

Thomas is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.