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Pte. Thomas "Changa Drost" Munro MM.
British Army 1st Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Higlanders
from:Glasgow
I know a lot about my grandfather Thomas Munro's service and the names of some of his pals. He enlisted in August 1914 and was at Constantinople in 1919. He mustered out in May 1919. He was awarded the Military Medal for Gallantry in the field at 2nd Ypres. He served in the trenches with Colin Campbell Mitchell, Sr. then with the HLI. Colin Campbell Mitchell Sr. won a battlefield commission to Captain in the Argylls and MC and later another MC.
The Argylls experienced 36 days of continual combat during April and May, 1915. My grandfather saw the first poison gas attack in April 1915. He said a medical student from Glasgow University recognized it was chlorine gas and recommended they use urine-soaked handkerchiefs as an emergency measure. I know other stories and events as well.
