REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY - Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Gunner, THOMAS HENRY Melhuish, 14528929. 131 Field Regt. Royal Artillery. 10th February 1945. Age 21. Son of Vincent Lawrence Melhuish, and of Lucy Melhuish, of Dalston, London. 54. G. 6.
Thomas Melhuish was one of four members of Major Campbell's crew who were killed when the house in which they were sheltering received a direct hit from a heavy shell. Major Campbell, later to become Lord Campbell of Croy is quoted in his obituary (Telegraph 28/04/2005) "All four were killed, and I picked myself up from the rubble."
