'Tom' Atkinson - North'd fusilier 1915, killed in 1936

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The MIC card for Sapper Thomas A Carse, RE, states SWB List R.E / 662. Would he be fit enough to work as a hewer down a pit ?

This may be him:

Thomas Arthur Carse: Birth registered 1887, Cambridge.

Thomas A Carse: Death registered 1959, Cambridge, aged 72.

The writing on the back of the photo looks to be that of an elderly person. Could it be that the writer added those details many years later and got muddled up with the Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery disaster which claimed 58 lives on 6 August 1936 ?

There is a reasonably detailed family tree that includes Thomas Atkinson Carse on ancestry. Sadly no photo and no military records added.

Thanks again, JP! Really appreciate your help! The fact that the RE man was discharged with an SWB wouldn't necessarily mean that he was permanently unfit to work as a hewer - hard to say for sure without knowing what he was discharged for, of course. The fact that Thomas Atkinson Carse isn't mentioned on the Colliery roll of honour may well indicate that he wasn't the RE man, though. Let's hope that someone comes up with some further ideas about this one........!