Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30433, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30433/pages/1322. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 33316 Private Thomas Henry Sage, Somerset Light Infantry (Tiverton). For most conspicuous bravery during an attack on an enemy strong post. On 4th October 1917 at Tower Hamlets Spur, east of Ypres, Belgium, he was in a shell hole with eight other men, one of whom was shot while in the act of throwing a bomb. The live bomb fell into the shell hole, and Private Sage, with great courage and presence of mind, immediately threw himself on it, thereby undoubtedly saving the lives of several of his comrades, though he himself sustained very severe wounds.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30433, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30433/pages/1322. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 33316 Private Thomas Henry Sage, Somerset Light Infantry (Tiverton). For most conspicuous bravery during an attack on an enemy strong post. On 4th October 1917 at Tower Hamlets Spur, east of Ypres, Belgium, he was in a shell hole with eight other men, one of whom was shot while in the act of throwing a bomb. The live bomb fell into the shell hole, and Private Sage, with great courage and presence of mind, immediately threw himself on it, thereby undoubtedly saving the lives of several of his comrades, though he himself sustained very severe wounds.