British Army Veterinary Corps
Thomas EASTWOOD
Captain
Died 10 January 1917 · Aged 49
His story
Captain Thomas Eastwood MRCVS was educated at the Manchester public schools and trained for his profession at Edinburgh.
He was briefly assistant to a large firm in Manchester and then practised in Northwich some 25 years ago. The County Council appointed him one of the inspectors for Mid-Cheshire and regarded him as a most capable veterinary surgeon.
In 1915, Thomas obtained a commission in the Army Veterinary Corps and was soon promoted to Captain. An attack of rheumatism resulted in him being invalided out of the service; his heart was also affected by the rheumatism.
He was at the meeting of the Northwich Board of Guardians (of which he was a member) on Monday, 8 January 1917, but on Tuesday afternoon, he had an apoplectic seizure, and he passed away on the morning of 10 January from cerebral apoplexy.
The funeral took place at Northwich Cemetery.
Captain Eastwood’s death was reported in the Veterinary Record of 20 January 1917, and his Obituary appeared on 27 January 1917.
Before the war
- Nationality
- British
- Date of Birth
- 17 July 1867
- Place of Birth
- Chorlton, Lancashire, England
- Veterinary College and Date of Graduation
- New Edinburgh - December 1889
Military service
- Last Rank
- Captain
- Regiment/Service
- British Army Veterinary Corps
Medals and commemoration
- Name on RCVS Honour Board
- Yes
- Name In Officers who died in Great War
- Yes
- Medals and Awards
- British War Medal 1914-1918; Victory Medal
Death and burial
- Date of Death
- 10 January 1917
- Age at Death
- 49
- Place of Death
- Norwich, England
- Cause of Death
- Stroke
- Cemetery
- Northwich Cemetery
- Location
- Northwich, Cheshire, England
- Grave Reference
- C of E 534
- Commonwealth War Grave
- Yes - Private Headstone
Sources and further reading
- CWGC casualty and commemoration record
- Find a Grave memorial
- The Veterinary Record, 20 and 27 January 1917 — cited in the earlier biography
Cite this biography
Graham Hodgkins and Pete Matthews, “Thomas Eastwood”, Veterinary Virtual War Memorial, https://vetsremembered.org/people/thomas_eastwood/.
Contribute information
Can you supply a photograph of Thomas Eastwood, with its source and permission to display it?