INDIA GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL 1908 AFGHANISTAN 6488 FINCHAM YORKSHIRE REGIMENT
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Offered is an India General Service Medal 1908, with clasp AFGHANISTAN N.W.F. 1919, impressed named 6488 PTE. T. FINCHAM. YORK. R. Comes with copy medal rolls, M.I.C, 1911 & 1939 census, extracts Discharge book and photograph.
Thomas Fincham was born 18/1/1880 in Attleborough, Norfolk. A labourer by trade he enlisted in Colchester 8/2/1901 with the 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (service number 6488)
WW1: The Battalion was stationed in India for the duration of the war. August 1914 initially stationed in Barian, Punjab, attached to 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division. In November 1914, briefly moved to the Delhi Brigade in 7th (Meerut) Divisional Area before going to the Kohat Brigade on the northwest Frontier.
The Battalion was camped at Dakka from 19 May to 13 Sep 1919 and involved in the fighting where they were the first troops to occupy the ridge on 18 May. Towards the end of the campaign local Mohmand tribesmen attacked the piquets on the heights near the camp resulting in a tough fight in which a subaltern and 4 other ranks were killed and 9 men wounded. The 1st Battalion Green Howards lost 8 men killed and 14 wounded during the campaign and they marched back to India in September 1919. Posted to the Queens Royal Regiment 27/12/1919, with the new service number 6078450.
He was discharged 31/3/1922 at the termination of his enlistment with his conduct recorded as exemplary. Granted LS & GC Medal September 1919 with gratuity. Also entitled to the British War Medal 1914 – 18. The 1939 census records him as living in Wayland, Norfolk working as a gardener. He died in September 1946 in Wayland.
