Private Thomas Pease played Adamstown and also behind the trenches for the 34th Battalion on the Western Front. He contracted influenza in May 1918 and was discharged from the AIF as medically unfit after his return to Newcastle on 29 March 1919. By 1920 he had regained his fitness to turn out for Adamstown again.
Thomas Pease was killed in the Greycliffe disaster on 3 November 1927, the deadliest incident on Sydney Harbour. On that fateful day, the harbour ferry Greycliffe and the Union Steamship Company mail steamer Tahiti collided. The smaller ferry was cut in two and sank with the loss of 40 lives. He was 34 years of age.