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“If you think, have a kindly thought, If you speak, speak generously, Of those who as heroes fought And died to keep you free”
Set up by the Black Country Society. Our aim is to highlight local men who died in the Great War and how they have been commemorated on war memorials. Its scope covers the whole of the present Dudley Municipal Borough and therefore includes the places which have come within its bounds since 1914.
There are over fifty memorials and the number of names exceeds three thousand. Research on the names has been extensive but inevitably errors and omissions occur. We would like to hear about them concentrated on life and work before 1914, involvement in military campaigns and where each man is buried or commemorated.
Thomas Corfield enlisted in the artillery and was attached as a Driver to the 5th Brigade Ammunition Column of the Royal Horse Artillery. The 5th Brigade was in the 2nd Division which was engaged in almost every phase of the 1918 battles. In the Advance to Victory it was at Bapaume on the 21st August, the Battles of the Hindenburg Line in September and the Battle of the Selle from 23-25 October. Driver Corfield could have been wounded in any of these phases of the campaign and then sent home to a military hospital at Pontypool. He died after victory had been achieved on the 18th November 1918 and is buried at Pontypool (Panteg) Cemetery (B 502) and commemorated on the Stourbridge, St. Thomas's church and Methodist church Memorials.
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