3121: Tom Thorpe

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posted on 2024-01-16, 17:20 authored by Lest We Forget Project Team

Tom Thorpe was a driver and lived in Ilkley. He was in 245 battery 4th West Yorks which became 245 brigade in 1915/16. He served throughout the war: April 1915 - 1919. The battery had few casualties in the war possibly because they were further from the frontline. He came home for Christmas in 1918/19 and camped at Folkestone. In Jan 1919 they protested about having to go back to France and eventually they were sent home.

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Margaret Harley (Tom's daughter)

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Tom Thorpe

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1915-1919

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Photos of Tom and possibly 245 battery, combined leave and railway ticket, leave warrant, demob papers.

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City Hall, Bradford (02/02/19)

3121: Tom Thorpe

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