Obituary: Gwynn Thomas (2024)

Obituary from the December 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard

We are saddened to have to report the death in October of longstanding member Gwynn Thomas at the age of 85. Gwynn was born into a Welsh-speaking small farming family on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn). After national service in the RAF and moving to London to work in the civil service, he joined the old Paddington branch in 1964. In the course of his nearly sixty years membership Gwynn engaged in the whole range of socialist activity: selling the Socialist Standard outside tube stations, speaking at Hyde Park, indoor lecturer, writer, election candidate. He was a member of the Executive Committee and Party Treasurer for a number years and also on the Editorial Committee of the Standard for a time, as well as the Pamphlets Committee. Latterly he was the secretary of the South London branch. He was a diligent and conscientious man with a particular interest in exposing the horrors of war (and at one stage was engaged in research about political opposition to the world slaughters that occurred last century). Our condolences go to his family