Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Albert Edward Churchhouse a green grocer, born 1871 in St. Albans, Herts., and his wife Lizzie, born 1871 in Madingley, Cambs. Thomas William James was born in 1897 in Leicester, his siblings were, Arthur Frederick, born 1898 and Harry M., born 1901, both his siblings were born in Leicester, in March 1901 the family home was at 160, Upper Brunswick Street, Leicester. In April 1911 Thomas was employed as a printer and was residing in the family home at 35, Walnut Street, Leicester, together with his parents and siblings, Arthur, Dorothy, born 1895 in St. Albans, Herts., and Annie Mary, born 1902 in Leicester. His younger brother Arthur was killed in an action with a submarine in the Irish Sea.