Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Thomas George Deane Burdett) small hole pierced at 12 o’clock, good very fine £80-£120

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Thomas George Deane Burdett was born in Rhyl on 15 February 1881 and was educated at Aberystwyth Grammar School and Aberystwyth University. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st/7th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and served with them during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 9 August 1915. Evacuated with the Battalion to Mudros on 11 December 1915, he saw further service in the Middle East, Egypt, and Palestine, and was killed in action during the Third Battle of Gaza on 6 November 1917. He is buried in Beersheba War Cemetery.