Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Charlotte, and the late John Moyens.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
The following information was kindly shared with the project by F Tilley in 2016: "Thomas Moyens was born in 1892 in Bardon Hill.
He was the son of Charlotte Moyens nee Clarke, (1856-1943) born in Bardon Hill, Coalville, Leicestershire, widow of John Moyens born 1856 in Derby, Derbyshire, Engine Machinery Wright Workman at the Bardon Quarry, living at Bardon Hill Row No 6, Bardon Hill, Leicestershire.

Thomas had four siblings, two sisters: Hilda (1884) and Flora (or Florence C) (1887) both born in Bardon, Coalville, Leicestershire He also had two brothers also born in Bardon Hill: John Stanley, born 1891 an Office Clerk at the Quarry of Bardon Hill, Leics, who was No 13385 Corporal in 1918 in the Coldstream Guards during and was presented with a Military Medal. John Stanley was later in 1919 Sergeant in the Coldstream Guards and George William born 1894 an Office Clerk at the Quarry of Bardon Hill who was Sergeant in the Northampton Regiment during the Great War and became a Lieutenant in the Home Guard during the Second World War.

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In 1891 Thomas was a Rock Driller at the Stone Quarry, Bardon Hill, Leicestershire. He was single, living at the family home in Bardon Hill before the war and worked at the Quarry


Thomas Moyens enlisted with the Army in Coalville, Leicestershire. He told his family that he had been ‘browned up’

Thomas died at the age of 25

Details obtained by Mrs Burkenshaw, their great niece still living in Bardon, Leics."
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Coalville Times article - Friday October 26th, 1917

MEMORIAL SERVICE

There was a large congregation at St. Peter’s Church on Sunday evening last, when a memorial service was held for Private Thomas Moyens, of the Leicester Howitzer Brigade, who died as the assault of a shell wound received on October 1st. The service was conducted by the Rev. E. Pillifant (curate-in-charge). The officials of the Granite Sick Benefit Society, of which the deceased was a member, were present, together with members of the family. Suitable hymns were sung, and Mr T. Pruden, the organist, played Mendelssohn’s “O rest in the Lord” at the conclusion of the service. The deceased’s mother has a certificate from the officer commanding his company, expressing his admiration and appreciation of the late soldier’s conduct in the Messines Battle, June 1917. He enlisted on October 12th, 1915, and went to France in June 1916. He has a brother in Egypt, and another in France.

Coalville Times article - Friday October 26th, 1917

THANKS

Mrs John Moyens, and Family, 6, Bardon Row, desire, through this medium to tender their sincere thanks to all friends who expressed sympathy with them in their sad bereavement, through the death of their son, killed in action.

Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby 24/12/2017