Regimental Number: 101105
Rank: Private
Branch: 49th Battalion
Thomas was born in Campbell Bay, Quebec on February 20, 1890. It is unknown when he came to the Peace Country, but he enlisted in Edmonton in July of 1915. Thomas received a gunshot wound to his right hand in June of 1917 at Vimy Ridge; he was invalided to Canada in September of 1918. According to Thomas’s service file, he was “from Peace River country” and in 1924 his current address was listed as Pouce Coupe. Thomas died in Pouce Coupe on June 19, 1930.