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Rare Prisoner of War WW1 medals British Army Kings Royal Rifle Corps 3887 Thomas
1914/15 Star, named R-3887 PTE M. THOMAS. K.R.RIF:C.; British War and Victory Medals, named R-3887 PTE. M. THOMAS. K. R. RIF.C. Comes with copies of service records (burnt), M.I.C.; medal rolls, newspaper articles and research. Mansel Thomas was born in 1894 at Barry, Glamorgan, a clerk by trade he enlisted into the Kings Royal Rifle Corps on 8/9/1914 and posted to the 13th Battalion on 7/10/1914. He landed in France on 30/7/1915 and would have seen service at Loos and on the Somme. He was medically evacuated to England suffering from shell shock on 27/6/1916, remaining in England until 3/4/1917 when he was returned to France. He was initially posted to the 17th Battalion K.R.R.C. on 4/4/1917 but transferred to the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. โDโ Company on 6/5/1917. The battalion was stationed at Nieuport, preparing for โOperation Hushโ, when the Germans launched their own spoiling attack โOperation Strandfestโ by the Marinekorps-Flandern on 10/7/1917. The British units in the bridgehead over the Yser were hit with artillery, gas and flamethrowers as the Germans pinched out the bridgehead. Out of a strength of 20 officers and 520 other ranks, 17 officers and 481 other ranks became casualties or prisoners of war. Unfortunately Thomas [โฆ]
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