Thom's Irish Who's Who/Ormsby, Lieut.-Col. Thomas

3326471Thom's Irish Who's Who — Ormsby, Lieut.-Col. Thomas


ORMSBY, Lieut.-Col. Thomas, D.S.O. (1916); late Lieut.-Col. Army Pay Dept. Educ.: St. Columba's College, Rathfarnham, and Sherborne School, Dorset; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Connaught Rangers, 1888; joined 2nd Batt. South. Stafford Regt. 1891; Capt. Army Pay Dept., 1899; Major, 1911; Lieut.-Col. 1918; ret. on account of ill-health, 1920; served European War, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Feb.-Nov., 1915, including service in Dardanelles, Egypt, Gallipoli, and Salonika, and with the Salonika Army, 1915-16; ret. 1920. Pubns.: Army Finance as a Military Science; Men, Money and Food; How the Army is Paid; The Army Pay Dept. and the War Office; Training of Company Officers; Military Millinery. Recns.: fishing, shooting; youngest son of late John Yeadon Ormsby, of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo; b. 1871; m. Lucy Mary, dau. of Capt. Colin Thompson, of Salruck, Co. Galway and has issue one son and one dau. Res.: Darroch, Luss, Loch Lomond, Dumbartonshire. Army and Navy Club, London.