Second Lieutenant David Cuthbert Thomas (16 June 1895[1] – 18 March 1916) was a Welsh soldier of the British Army who served during the First World War.
That regiment also included the writers Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he became close friends.
After training, Thomas was posted to the regiment's 1st Battalion, which was then serving on the Western Front and attached to the 22nd Brigade, itself part of the 7th Infantry Division.
On 18 March 1916 Thomas was leading a working party to repair wire emplacements in no man's land at the Citadel, near Fricourt in France when he was shot in the throat.
Another eulogy came from the pen of Robert Graves in his dedicated poem, Goliath and David ("for D.C.T., killed at Fricourt, March 1916").