Medal Card :- Pte. - London Regt. Medal roll : 25th
London R. Pte., Posted 10th London R., 1(a) France 21.7.17 to 25.4.18,
K.A. 25.4.18.
'Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19' under the heading "25th (County of London) Battalion (Cyclists)" :-
Paris, Thomas Augustus, born Hammersmith, resident
Goodmayes, enlisted Fulham, 741314, L/Cpl., killed in action, France & Flanders,
25 Apr 1918.
In Memory of
Lance Corporal Thomas Augustus PARIS
741314, 25th Bn., London Regiment (Cyclists) posted to 2nd/10th Bn., London Regiment
who died age 21 on 25 April 1918
Son of Marshall James Paris, of 582, Green Lane, Goodmayes, Ilford, Essex; Asst. Scout Master 1st Chadwell Heath Boy Scouts.
Remembered with honour Pozieres Memorial,
Somme
,
France
. Panel 89.
Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Pozieres Memorial,
Somme
,
France
.
The POZIERES MEMORIAL relates to the period of crisis in March and April 1918
when the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the
former
Somme
battlefields, and the months that followed before the Advance to Victory,
which began on 8 August 1918. The Memorial commemorates over 14,000 casualties
of the
United Kingdom
and 300 of the South African Forces who have no known grave and who died on
the
Somme
from 21 March to 7 August 1918. The Corps and Regiments most largely
represented are The Rifle Brigade with over 600 names, The Durham Light
Infantry with approximately 600 names, the Machine Gun Corps with over 500,
The Manchester Regiment with approximately 500 and The Royal Horse and Royal
Field Artillery with over 400 names. The memorial encloses
POZIERES
BRITISH
CEMETERY
, Plot II of which contains original burials of 1916, 1917 and 1918, carried
out by fighting units and field ambulances. The remaining plots were made
after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields
immediately surrounding the cemetery, the majority of them of soldiers who
died in the Autumn of 1916 during the latter stages of the
Battle
of the
Somme
, but a few represent the fighting in August 1918. There are now 2,758
Commonwealth servicemen buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,380 of the
burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 23 casualties
known or believed to be buried among them. There is also 1 German soldier
buried here. The cemetery and memorial were designed by W.H. Cowlishaw, with
sculpture by Laurence A. Turner. The memorial was unveiled by Sir Horace
Smith-Dorrien on 4 August 1930.
Pozieres is a village 6 kilometres north-east of
the town of
Albert
. The Memorial encloses
Pozieres
British
Cemetery
which is a little south-west of the village on the north side of the main
road, D929, from Albert to Pozieres. On the road frontage is an open arcade
terminated by small buildings and broken in the middle by the entrance and
gates. Along the sides and the back, stone tablets are fixed in the stone
rubble walls bearing the names of the dead grouped under their Regiments. It
should be added that, although the memorial stands in a cemetery of largely
Australian graves, it does not bear any Australian names. The Australian
soldiers who fell in
France
and whose graves are not known are commemorated on the National Memorial at
Villers-Bretonneux.
[Courtesy of
Commonwealth War Graves Commission]
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