Thomas Alfred “TAP” Peel

In memoriam

Also in ever loving memory of Surgeon LieutenantThomas Alfred Peel R.A.M.C. youngest son of Joshua E and Mary Peel, who died on 24th August 1915, from a gun-shot wound received near Sulva Bay, Gallipoli, while administering relief to wounded soldiers lying exposed between the trenchesand was buried in the British military cemetery Mudros Bay, Island of Lemnos

Surgeon Lieutenant THOMAS ALFRED PEEL, R. A. M. C., youngest son of JOSHUA AND MARY PEEL, who died on 24th August 1915, from a gun-shot wound received near Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, while administering relief to wounded soldiers lying exposed between the trenches. ~ Thomas (who was generally known as T.A.P. ) was educated at the Armah Royal School, before entering the medical school of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. After about a year he went onto Newcastle-on-Tyne, and finally graduated M.B., B.S. in 1911 in the University of Durham. After leaving the university Thomas became house-surgeon at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. He then went to the Stafford General Infirmary, where he remained for some months before moving onto the North Stafford Infirmary at Stoke. On 10th October 1914, he was gazetted as temporary Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C., and was attached as medical officer to the 5th Bn. Dorset Regiment. He was mortally wounded by a Turkish sniper on 19th August 1915, while recovering wounded near Dead Man's House, Suvla. He was evacuated to Mudros on the Greek island of Lemnos, where he died of his wounds. Thomas was the youngest son of Mr J E Peel, a solicitor, Armagh.

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