WWI BWM. Lieutenant Dilnot. Royal Irish Rifles. London. Journalist.

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Correctly named Lieut TE Dilnot

Naming is faint as can be seen from the photographs.

Thomas Edward Dilnot was born to George and Elizabeth in 1887 in Hayling Island, Hampshire.

In 1911, we see him working as a journalist and living at 6 Sudbrook Road, Balham, London. He was also on the Blean Board of Guardians for the Workhouse at Herne Common. He was also on the War Reflief Fund Committee in Herne Bay in 1914.

He married Janet Constance Harvey in 1914.

We see him commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers with the Gazette dated 23/11/1917 from the Reserve Battalion.

We see him in 1921 working for ‘The Graphic’ as a journalist.

By 1939, he had moved to 287 Trinity Road, Wandsworth and is still working as a journalist and also an officer in the Emergency Reserve.

Thomas died in 1983.

We were lucky to find an online image of Thomas at a wedding in uniform in 1918.

He is entitled to a WWI Pair and possible a WWII Defence Medal.
The medal has an original silk ribbon.

WWI BWM. Lieutenant Dilnot. Royal Irish Rifles. London. Journalist.
£50.00

Availability: 1 in stock

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