Briggs T 2nd Lt MC 5th West Riding Regiment
BRIGGS, THOMAS, M.C., 2nd Lieut., 5th (Territorial) Battn. The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regt.), s. of the late George Briggs, by his wife, Jane, dau. of J. Knowles; b. Darwen, co. Lancaster, 14 Nov. 1889; educ. Bolton Road Congregational School there was a Weaver; joined the East Lancashire Regt. 3 May, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the following Sept. returned home to train for a commission in 1917; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th Lancashire Fusiliers in April, 1918: joined his battalion in France in the following July; transferred to the 5th West Riding Regt., and was killed in action near Solesines 18 Oct. of the same year. Buried in Quivy Communal Cemetery Extension, east of Cambrai. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your husband was a very excellent officer, and held in very high regard by the officers and men in the battalion. We feel to have lost a very real friend, and a splendid officer. In our last battle he greatly distinguished himself as a fearless and bold leader, and you must be comforted by the fact that he died fighting for all that he held best.” He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in the field before Cambrai 28 Sept. 1918. He m. at St. John’s, Darwen, 7 Aug. 1912, Mary Eleanor (25, Elswick Street, Darwen), dau. of William Clayton; s.p.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5