A man whose Army career took him to a different location to the rest of the Filey casualties, Tom enlisted into the Territorial Army on June 20^th 1940.  He qualified as an engineer fitter on 12^th June 1941 after just under a years training and was immediately dispatched to his unit, the 727^th Construction Centre (Chatham), Royal Engineers so called because the unit was based in the town of Chatham in the south of England. 

Just short of a year later this unit was sent to its overseas destination, the town of Port Stanley on the Falklands Islands where it left England by boat on 21^st May 1942.

After a further year of being stationed on this remote outpost, which although having relatively little military presence was still a key position as a stop off point for naval vessels, Thomas returned home.  He docked in the UK on 7^th June 1943 and was eventually re-posted to a unit somewhere in Gloucestershire.  A few months later as the winter months drew in Thomas became ill with Pneumonia and was rushed to hospital in Stow-on-Wold, Gloucestershire where he succumbed to this illness a few days later.  This was on Monday 29^th November 1943.

His body was returned back to his native Filey where it was laid to rest in St. Oswald’s.  Thomas was married to Vivienne and the couple lived at 21, The Crescent.  His parents, John and Beatrice Morley also lived in Filey.