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1st Connaught Rangers, Mesopotamia 1918 on their way to Nahr Umar (a port north of Basra on the Tigris River) they are embarking for the Palestine campaign.
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1st Connaught Rangers, Mesopotamia 1918 on their way to Nahr Umar (a port north of Basra on the Tigris River) they are embarking for the Palestine campaign.

My Great Grandfather Pte. Thomas Smyth from Clogheen county Tipperary, Ireland. He is one of these men, very proud of him.

u/AeroMcD123 — 4 days ago
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Thomas earned his VC for taking a machine gun position on the 3rd of September 1916, during the capture of Guillemont, Battle of the Somme.

u/AeroMcD123 — 17 days ago