Allied Victory Medal, Private T H Thomas, Middlesex Regiment

Circular, bronze medal designed by William McMillan with a figure of Winged Victory holding a palm branch on the obverse. On the reverse, the inscription, 'The Great War for Civilisation 1914-1919', within a laurel wreath. The medal is suspended from a double rainbow coloured medal ribbon.

Private Thomas Henry Thomas served in the 2nd/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. He joined the Army in 1914 and was posted to the Middle East in 1916, serving in Egypt, Suez and Palestine. Promoted to corporal, he requested to revert to the rank of private on 2 December 1916. The request was granted. Thomas was wounded on 1 April 1917 and awarded the Military Medal on 4 September 1917. He was killed in action in Syria, on 29 December 1917. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Thomas is buried in Jerusalem War Cemetery.

The Allied Victory Medal was issued in to all those personnel who had been mobilised for war service in World War One (1941918), between 5 August 1914 and 11 November 1918. The medal was not awarded singly. In this case, as was usual, it was awarded with the British War Medal 1914-20.

From a collection relating to Thomas Henry Thomas and Frederick George Thomas.