Thomas Fudge

Memorial: South Gloucestershire war dead not on a local memorial

Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment

Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal

Rank and number: Private 34341

Parents: Sarah Ann and James Fudge

Marital status: Single

Home address: 10 Chester Road, Whitehall, St. George, Bristol

Pre-war occupation: Chocolate Maker

Date of birth: 1892

Place of birth: Bitton, Bristol

Date of death: 20/04/1918

Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site. Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Not commemorated on a local memorial.

Age: 25

Further information:

Thomas was born in Bitton, the son of a bootmaker and a middle child of ten children with five brothers and four sisters. A younger brother Harold also died in the service of his country, two years before Thomas and he is commemorated on Summerhill Methodist Memorial.

Thomas served with the 2/5 Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, his battalion mobilised to France in May 1916 and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including the pursuit of the German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The Battle of Langemarck and The Cambrai Operations. Thomas was killed in action during the Battle of the Lys (7 – 29 April 1918) an allied victory but at a cost of 119,000 casualties. Thomas's body was never identified and the Loos Memorial where he is remembered, commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay, from the first day of the Battle of Loos to the end of the war.

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/