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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 200

A Great War Group of Three to Sergeant G. Thomas, Suffolk Regiment, Killed in Action, 30.3.1916 1914 Star, with Bar, loose as issued (5699 Sjt. G. Thomas. 2/Suff:R.); British War and Victory Medals (5699 Sjt. G. Thomas. Suff. R.), nearly extremely fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque, ´George Thomas´, with enclosure slip and in card box of issue Estimate £ 200-240 5699 Sergeant George Thomas, born Newton, Cambridgeshire; served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment on the Western Front from 10.10.1914; he was killed in action 30.3.1916; in late March 1916 the 2nd Battalion were heavily engaged at the St. Eloi Craters, the battalion entered the trenches on the 29th March, only to find that part of the system had been occupied by German forces who had fortified their position; on the 30th a small bombing party under the command of Second Lieutenant C.C. Field was sent to clear the position; the Battalion War Diary entry for 30.3.1916 gives the following, ´´St. Eloi - 12 hour bombing attack ordered from point 77 to link up with 10th Royal Welsh Fusiliers and to cut off about 50 enemy in a crater between ourselves and 10th RWF. Attack with 2nd Lieutenants CC Field and Burnett. After bombing for about an hour the party was compelled to retire to former position owing to sniping and strong crater occupied by the enemy. 2nd Lieutenant Field and 10 men killed´´; Thomas is buried in Voormezeele Enclosures, Ypres, Belgium.

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