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Pte. Thomas Edward Stanbridge
British Army Royal Fusiliers
from:Putney, London
I would love to find out more about the service of my much loved uncle, Thomas Stanbridge. As the only surviving family member I would like to put a little something about him on record somewhere. I just have two service medals, an embroidered postcard "To my Mother" containing slip of paper saying "a kiss from France". Also a black and white postcard of 36 men with two bicycles and a tan and black mongrel arranged on the steps of possibly a town hall, each man has signed the back and there is an index of who was who.
I know Uncle Tom's lungs were never very good after the war and he was very sad, never married and lived with my Grandmother all his life. The only stories he told were that he was asked to take an officer's horse back to camp and no account to ride it - but he rode it and it bolted and there was Trouble. Also, coming back for rest he was in a long queue in a tunnel in the trenches and someone in the queue coming out as they shuffled past one another offered him a drink as he looked "done in". He promptly passed out and was passed over everyone's heads to the rest area. So he never pretended to be a hero in the war! That is all I know, wish there was more.
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