Description

Offered is a General Service Medal (1918 -62), with clasp IRAQ, impressed named 89970 A.CPL. T.A. HEYWOOD. MANCH.R. Comes with copies M.I.C., medal rolls and census records.

Thomas Alfred Heywood was born in Salford, Lancashire in June 1898. He enlisted into the 20^th Lancashire Fusiliers (Bantam Battalion) with the service number 21827. The Battalion was formed in Salford, 23/3/1915. It landed in France 30/1/1916 and was disbanded 16/2/1918.

It is unknown when he was posted to the Labour Corps, possibly when the 20^th was disbanded, he was given the service number 113526 (this number block was allocated to the 190^th Labour Company), he was further posted to the 15^th Battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, with the new service number 64682.

The 15^th Battalion was formed on 11/6/1918. He was posted yet again to the 2^nd Battalion Manchester Regiment with yet another service number of 89970. It was with the 2^nd Manchesters that he served with in Iraq.

He continued to serve with the Manchesters when they were re numbered post war and received his final service number 3514023.

The 1939 census records him working as a rubber calenderer (Calendering is a process which is employed to produce very high quality seamless rolls of rubber with extremely consistent thickness and density) in Salford.

WW2: He re enlisted 18/7/1940 into the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment, discharging 5/10/1945. He died in 1970 at Barton, Lancashire.