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225591Pte. Thomas Stenson
British Army Machine Gun Corps
from:Buxton, Derbyshire
Tom Stenson served in the military after enlisting in 1915 when he was 23 years old. He enlisted on 11th December 1915 in Buxton, Derbyshire into the 'Sherwood Foresters' Pte 33807. This followed the death of his older brother John who was killed at the Battle of Loos on 29th September 1915. Tom later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps as Pte 159633.Due to the difficulty of researching the MGC, apart from knowing that Tom served abroad which is stated on the SWB list we do not know as yet where he served. Tom suffered from 'Sickness' his war possibly over on 10th Aug 1917 and was finally discharged on 22nd March 1919, this information is from the SWB list and Tom's badge number was 271506.
Tom went onto marry after the war in 1923 having a son in 1931. He was employed by the Co-operative Society as a Bread delivery man. Tragically he ended his own life in 1962 just after his 70th Birthday. We will never know the suffering he went through during the war or how much this affected his life afterwards.
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