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Sgt. Thomas J. Bullivant MM.
British Army 216th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery

Tom Bullivant served with 216th Siege Battery, RGA in WW1 and survived the War. As an Acting Sergeant, he was gazetted for the Military Medal on 18th of June 1917.
I can find no record of his citation or other information online or via the National Archive to confirm the family story that he was awarded the bravery award for saving his commanding officer from capture by German troops, the story being that he removed his CO's leg with a pen-knife at the request of the CO (after another man had refused) as his leg was trapped, and he could not escape otherwise. As a butcher's boy before the War, it has some semblance of truth.

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