Edwin James Thomas served as a Driver in the Royal Army Service Corps, and died from the effects of influenza, on the 9th March 1919, in France. He was buried at TerlincthunBritish Cemetery, Wimille, near Boulogne, France and remembered with Honour on the Great War Rood Screen Memorial, All Saints' Church, Mumbles, Swansea. He lived on Victoria Avenue, Mumbles.