One of Spitalsfields Nippers: Thomas Neale, 2/Bedfordshire Regiment

[Hedley Malloch]

An interesting piece on London's pre-WW1 poor in The Guardian, entitled 'Spitalsfields Nippers:London's Poorest Children in the Early 1900s'. See https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/oct/25/spitalfields-nippers-londons-poorest-children-in-the-early-1900s-in-pictures#img-2

It has this picture of young Thomas Neale who was to be killed during 3rd Ypres in October 1917. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. His mother died of 'exhaustion' in 1897.