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Corporal Tom CUTTS 6 years 5 months ago #60488

Hello Karen
Please contact me at [email protected] about your Great Grandfather Tom Cutts. My grandparents were also in the Don Street Pension Flats in Papakura at the same time Tom lived there. I do remember him although to be honest I was very young. My siblings remember him as a very fine upstanding man albeit that he was going blind in the last part of his life. I can remember him walking with a white cane when that was a very new thing and my father painted a walking stick white for Tom. Anyway I would really like to hear from you.

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Corporal Tom CUTTS 6 months 1 week ago #96563

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Hi Karen and Sez.

I'm Tom's great grandson and have been looking in to his war history and life recently. I too have vague memories of visiting him at the home in Pahurehure in the early '70s.

This forum has been a great source of information!

Would be great to make contact sometime to see if there is anything else we can learn about Tom.

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The attestation papers, service records & discharge papers covering 39496 Tom Cutts service in the Imperial Yeomanry during the ABW can be found on Ancestry by doing a Military search, entering his name as Tom & Cutts and putting his regimental service number 39496 in the Keyword box - the six pages of records come out top of the ensuing list.

He left England on 1st May 1902 (i.e. third wave/contingent of IY) meaning he would have arrived in SA about 10 days before peace was declared. so he probably never acted in "anger". He returned home 6 months later.

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