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275 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 275 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery? There are:5229 items tagged 275 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 275 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Grant MM.. Thomas Joseph. Cpl. Suffling Frederick Charles. LBDR (d.28th August 1919) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 275 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery from other sources. 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During that time, he fought in the Battle of the Somme (1916), the Battle of Messines Ridge (1917), the Third Battle of Ypres (1917) and the Battle of the Lys (1918). In March 1919 Fred was notified that he had been awarded the Croix de Virtute Militara (a gallantry award made by King Carol of Romania), which was gazetted in September 1919. Unfortunately, Fred did not receive the award in person as he died on 28th of August 1919 and the medal was not posted until April 1920. I have been trying to find out the reason that the award was made but so far have not been successful. Pamela Suffling Add to this record. 221681 Cpl. Thomas Joseph Grant MM. 275th (W Lancs) Bde, A Battery Royal Field Artillery Thomas Joseph Grant's Military Medal, was gazetted in the The London Gazette, Issue 30940, Page 11829 7 October 1918 and The Edinburgh Gazette, Issue 13333, Page 3727 9 October 1918: "His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Military Medal for bravery in the field to the under-mentioned Non-commissioned Officer: 675093 Cpl. T. J. Grant, R.F.A. A/275th (W Lancs) Bde RFA (TF)." This Gallantry Medal is the other ranks' equivalent to the Military Cross (M.C.).The military decoration was awarded to Thomas Joseph Grant for acts of gallantry and devotion to duty under fire or for individual or associated acts of bravery which were insufficient to merit the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Conferment of the medal was announced in the London Gazette and Thomas Joseph Grant earned the right to add the letters M.M. to his name. During the Second World War he was also awarded the British Empire Medal (Civil Division), announced in the London Gazette, Issue 35264, Page 5142, 5th September 1941: " Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, St James’s Palace, SW1 5th September 1941: The King has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following awards of the British Empire Medal and for the publication in the London Gazette of the names of the persons specially shown below as having received an expression of Commendation for their brave conduct in Civil Defence: George Robert Symington, Police Constable, Liverpool Police Force, Thomas Joseph Grant, Foreman, A.R.P. Rescue Party and Bertie Kavanagh, Member . During an air raid a man and a boy were trapped beneath a demolished building. Constable Symington, together with Grant and Kavanagh, began tunnelling operations. Enemy aircraft were overhead and bombs fell within fifty yards of the men and demolished a nearby building. One of the two remaining walls of the wrecked house collapsed and Symington was buried to the thighs in debris. He remained in this position, supporting part of the wreckage with his body until, after two hours' continuous effort; the two victims were brought to safety. All three men showed courage in effecting the rescue, being aware of the likelihood of the collapse of the remaining walls." Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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