244165 Sgt. Thomas Lovatt MM.British Army 5th Btn. South Wales Borderers from:Tunstall, Staffordshire Thomas Lovatt came from Tunstall near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and saw service during the Great War as a Private later Sergeant (No.19443) with the 5th Pioneers Battalion, South Wales Borderers.
Seeing service on the Western Front from 17th of July 1915, his Battalion, formed as part of Kitcheners 2nd New Army, came under the orders of the 58th Brigade, in the 19th (Western) Division, and had originally been converted to a Pioneer Battalion back in January 1915. Lovatt had arrived on the Western Front with the main body of his battalion which would land at Le Havre on 16th July 1915.
Lovatt was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field in the London Gazette for 29th August 1918, which indicates an award won during the period of the German Spring Offensive during March to April 1918. Lovatt was subsequently discharged to the Class Z Army Reserve on 22nd February 1919.
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