Post by Daniel Silk on Feb 25, 2011 16:31:42 GMT
Corporal Thomas Silk
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"It was a proud time for Walsall. On August 17, 1916, Corporal Thomas Silk of Checketts Street, Walsall, won the Military Medal for gallantry during the fighting on the Somme in northern France.
The Somme saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the war and one of its worst killing grounds was Delville Wood, known to the Tommoes as Devil Wood.
Cpl Silk, 23, won the medal for maintaining communications with headquarters of his battalion, the 2nd South Staffords.
He was presented with the award by the Mayor of Walsall at Her Majesty's Theatre, Walsall, becoming the town's first living MM holder. Other soldiers from Walsall had won the medal but were killed later."
www.expressandstar.com/millennium/1900/1900-1924/1916.html
"It was a proud time for Walsall. On August 17, 1916, Corporal Thomas Silk of Checketts Street, Walsall, won the Military Medal for gallantry during the fighting on the Somme in northern France.
The Somme saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the war and one of its worst killing grounds was Delville Wood, known to the Tommoes as Devil Wood.
Cpl Silk, 23, won the medal for maintaining communications with headquarters of his battalion, the 2nd South Staffords.
He was presented with the award by the Mayor of Walsall at Her Majesty's Theatre, Walsall, becoming the town's first living MM holder. Other soldiers from Walsall had won the medal but were killed later."
