Second Lieutenant Tom Denton EDDISON (1911)

14th (Service) Battalion, attached to 19th (Service) Battalion, King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
Born 7 November 1892 in Harrogate, Yorkshire
Killed in action 30 July 1916, aged 23
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Also commemorated on Ilkley, Eastbourne and Eastbourne College war memorials.

Tom Eddison was the son of Joseph Cooper Eddison and Florence, née Scholes, of “Dorus More”, Meads, Eastbourne, Sussex.

He was educated at Charney Hall prep school, Grange-over-Sands, and at Eastbourne College, and came up to Merton in 1911, taking second class honours in Law in 1914.

He enlisted in the Public Schools Brigade on 1 September 1914, and obtained his commission in November. He went to the front in February 1916.

He was killed in Arrow Head Copse, Trônes Wood on the Somme on 30 July 1916, while leading his platoon into action.