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Pte. George Thomas
British Army 12th Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Blackburn, Lancashire
(d.12th April 1918)
George Thomas was the youngest child of a family of 10 girls and 1 boy (George) from the cotton town of Blackburn in Lancashire. The family story was that George enlisted following pressures from other mill workers in 1917. He went to France and within a few weeks was in action in the last big German offensive, with the 12th Suffolks being engaged in bitter fighting around Nieppe on 11/4/1918. The unit then withdrew to La Creche and moved on to Strazelle where they dug in. George was killed on 12/4/1918 at the age of 19. The fighting flowed backwards and forwards and George was never recovered into a named grave and is now remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial. Sadly, his mother Edith never managed to travel to France to see that memorial.