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Acting Bomb. Thomas Alfred Hutson
British Army 6th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Romford / Great Yarmouth
(d.19th December 1915)
Thomas Alfred Hutson was born in Romford in 1886, he enlisted to the British Army in 1914 in Great Yarmouth.
He fought with the Royal Garrison Artillery in France and Belgium, on the 19th of December 1915 he was killed in the early hours of the morning at the second battle of Ypres.
The Germans launched a massive gas and artillery attack on the British front line and Artillery line. It was the first known use of the new Chlorine gas.
Thomas Alfred Hutson was awarded with 3 campaign medals; Victory Medal, British War Medal and the 1914-1915 star.
He will be remembered.