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Pte. Tom Gains

British Army 21st Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps

from:Brearton

(d.17th Sep 1916)

Tom Gains was one of a large farming family who lived in the country around Knaresborough. He was called up in 1915 at the age of 18 and joined the 21st Yeomanry Battalion being trained at Helmsley and then on to Salisbury Plain and France.

The battalion undertook later operations on the Somme Battle and was engaged in an attack on Flers Courcellette in September 1916. Tom died in the attack and has no known grave but is included on the Somme Memorial at Thiepval



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