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| On 31st July 1917, at Wieltje in Belgium, when his platoon was held up by machine-gun fire, Mayson, aged 23, without waiting for orders, at once made for the gun which he put out of action with grenades, wounding 4 of the team. The remaining 3 Germans fled to a dug-out where he caught up with them and killed them.
Later, when clearing up a strongpoint, this NCO again tackled a machine-gun single-handed, killing 6 of the team. Finally, during an enemy counter attack he took charge of an isolated post and successfully held it until ordered to withdraw, having exhausted his ammunition. Tom Fletcher Mayson was born in Silecroft, Cumberland on 3rd Nov 1893. He died in Barrow-in-Furness on 21st Feb 1958 aged 64. There are memorials to him at St Mary's Church, Whicham, near Silecroft and The Priory in Lancaster. |
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