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Pte Thomas Paddon

British Army 1st/4th Btn. Devonshire Regiment

from:Tiverton, Devon

(d.17th July 1917)

Tom and Selina Paddon and family about 1916

Tom Paddon was born 1877 in Tiverton, Devon and died in Iraq in 1917 He was husband to Selina. Father to 5 children Ellen b. 1901, William b. 1903, Tom b. 1905, James b. 1909 and Harold b. 1911. Before the war he was a Coal Merchants Yardman in Tiverton, Devon.

He started the War in the 1st/4th Devonshire Regiment, finding himself in the Middle East. On 3rd of February 1917 the 1/4th Devons and 1/9th Gurkhas led a dazzlingly successful attack on the Hai Salient in the Turkish line south of Kut. Victory came at a price, of 15 officers and 403 men who attacked, only 5 officers and 186 men emerged unscathed. The survivors of the 1/4th spent the rest of the war in Amara and Baquba (north of Baghdad) building roads, guarding prisoners and administering refugee camps.

Tom was transferred to the 2nd Garrison Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers in Mesopotamia. He is buried in the North Gate Cemetery in Baghdad, Iraq.



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