Good afternoon. I live at the bottom end of Kent and I have never been able to fathom just why I can find so little in Birmingham itself about the 48th (South Midland) Division's role in WW1. My grandfather was Major Bernard Martin Thornton, who joined the Division in 1916 and became the Assistant Director of Ordnance Services for the 48th. He fought at The Somme, at Ypres and finally in Italy. He won the Military Cross on 1 January 1918. I never met him - he died in 1950. It would be great to add to the research I have done about him over the last 20 years. After the war, he returned to his great interest as a political agent for the Conservatives. He served in five different regions of England during his 30 (ish) years in the job - between 1932 and 1936 (when he resigned from the role) he was the Conservative political agent for the West Midlands. Yet I can find very little in terms of any sort of records about what he did in the West Midlands. Can anyone help or point me in the right direction, please??
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48th (South Midland) Division WW1
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