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3 unusual facts about Thomas Harold Broadbent Maufe


Thomas Harold Broadbent Maufe

He was killed in an accident with a misfiring trench mortar during training at the age of 43 on 28 March 1942 near Ilkley.

Maufe's name is listed on a war memorial on the gates of his former prep school, Nevill Holt, near the village of Medbourne, Leicestershire, along with other casualties of the World Wars.

On 4 June 1917 at Feuchy, France, Second Lieutenant Maufe, on his own initiative and under intense artillery fire repaired, unaided, the telephone wire between the forward and rear positions, thereby enabling his battery to open fire on the enemy.



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