Thomas was the son of Samuel and Hannah Antrobus (nee Rowlands) of Ewloe Place, born in Buckley in 1896. In 1911 Thomas 14 and his father Samuel, 40, were both working at a brickworks. Brothers and sisters were Hannah, Eliza, Joseph, Eleanor, Hilda, Charles. Thomas was 21 when he died less than two months before the Armistice. Thomas was remembered on a plaque in St. John’s Congregational Church.