MCGUIGAN Thomas Stirling Private 37847

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Surname: MCGUIGAN;

Forename(s): Thomas Stirling;

Initials: TS;

Number: 37847;

Rank: Private;

Born in: Belfast;

Enlistment Date: 25-May-1916;

Resided in: Belfast;

Previous Number: 54305;

Previous Battalion: 3 of;

Previous Regiment: DLI;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 43 Coy;

Discharge Date: 13-Feb-1919;

Silver War Badge? B168801;

Other Data: b 4/2/1896
POW Germany 16/9/1916 - wounded
ICRC Ref: PA6868/7082/9872/10429/39959
On list of POWs who arrived in Switzerland from Germany 30/8/1918
disch KR xvi (wounds) aged 22 yrs 11m
11 Wellesley Avenue, Belfast
died Belfast 24/4/1929
VIC medal offered eBay July '12

Machine Gun Coy.,
Chateau d’Oex, Hotel Victoria,
Switzerland,
September ioth, 1918.
Dear Sir,—Just a few lines to let you know that I
have been fortunate in being interned at the above
address, so you can now strike my name off the list of
men for receiving packets. I take the opportunity of
thanking you for the consistent method adopted in
forwarding my packets to Germany ; of course, on onfe or
two occasions when I was transferred from one place to
another, my packets were a little delayed, but, of course,
this did not matter much as I always looked forward to
the arrival of my packets, especially being situated in a
country which is in such a state of starvation.
It is a great relief indeed to a man, on crossing over
the border, out of such a country as the enemies’,
At present I am enjoying a life of freedom here, which
is a real treat after two years of exile.
I will now close, again thanking you for your kind atten-
tion in the past.—Sincerely yours,
(Sgd.) 37847 Pte. T. McGuigan. (MGC Mag Oct 1918);

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