ILKLEY CEMETERY
Yorkshire
England
Picture used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Picture used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Volunteer Thomas Harold Broadbent Maufe, V. C.
(Received V. C. during WW1)
28th West Riding (Otley) Bn. Home Guard, died 28th March 1942, aged 43. Plot Section A. Grave 768.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic B. Maufe; husband of Mary Gwendolen Maufe (nee Carr), of Myddleton. M.A. (Cantab.).
Citation: The following details are given in the London Gazette of 2nd August, 1917: For most conspicuous bravery and initiative." Under intense artillery fire 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Harold Broadbent Maufe, R.G.A., on his own initiative and unaided, repaired the telephone line between forward and rear positions, enabling his battery to open fire immediately. This officer also extinguished a fire in an advanced ammunition dump regardless of the risk presented by gas shells which he knew to be in the dump." By his great promptitude, resource, and entire disregard of his own safety he set an exceptionally fine example to all ranks.
Identified Casualties 46.
(Received V. C. during WW1)
28th West Riding (Otley) Bn. Home Guard, died 28th March 1942, aged 43. Plot Section A. Grave 768.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic B. Maufe; husband of Mary Gwendolen Maufe (nee Carr), of Myddleton. M.A. (Cantab.).
Citation: The following details are given in the London Gazette of 2nd August, 1917: For most conspicuous bravery and initiative." Under intense artillery fire 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Harold Broadbent Maufe, R.G.A., on his own initiative and unaided, repaired the telephone line between forward and rear positions, enabling his battery to open fire immediately. This officer also extinguished a fire in an advanced ammunition dump regardless of the risk presented by gas shells which he knew to be in the dump." By his great promptitude, resource, and entire disregard of his own safety he set an exceptionally fine example to all ranks.
Identified Casualties 46.
