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Pte. Thomas "Tucker" Mosley
British Army 1/5th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:22 Mundy St, Derby
(d.6th Sep 1943)
My grandfather Thomas Mosley survived the evacuation from Dunkirk despite accidentally being shot in the leg by a French partisan whilst taking refuge in a haystack, believing him to be a German soldier.
The Frenchman presented him with a medal (which I still have today), before evacuation.
After recovery, he was sent to Singapore where he was unfortunately captured and sent to a prison camp to work on the Burma Railway.
However he died of cholera in the camp.