Private Horace Godfrey Tenson Tinson? Thomas (Service number 19575)was in the R.N. Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry. He was killed on 13 November 1916 during the Battle of the Ancre. Charles Milner Williams (service no. 3/5296) was in the Royal Hampshire Regiment. He had previously served in the Boer War and re-enlisted in October 1914. He was posted to Gallipoli in April 1915. He was wounded on 28th April 1915 (believed to be shot by a sniper) and lay in the open from 9.30am till 6pm. He then crawled back half a mile and staggered over 3 miles to the beach. He was conveyed on the Hospital Ship Delta back to Alexandria, and from there home to England. The bullet that had been shot through his left lung remained in his body between his heart and spine for the rest of his life. He was invalided out of the army and awarded the Silver War Badge (Award to honour military personnel discharged due to illness or wounds). || Commemoration plaque & certificates for Horace Thomas. Queen's South Africa medal + 1914/1915 Star medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal. Diary for March 1915-August 1915 + photograph of soldiers in Malta c.1905 Silver War Badge 9599 + Hampshire Regiment cap badge

Commenced June 15 | 1825. Finished August 1 | 1831.

Left a diary and various letters put into a book and published in 1915 by his father for private distribution. GLM was a regular army officer in 1914 and was killed in France at the Battle of Aisne on 14th September 1914. He served with 11th Field Company Royal Engineers. || Book text, photos and map.