Also Served: Thomas Nulty - Thomas NULTY
11 Stone Street, Prescot Prescot Private 13100, 11th Bn., King's (Liverpool) Regiment 
Thomas NULTY, MM & Bar
Thomas Nulty was my grandfather and also brother of Patrick, Anthony and James Nulty.
Born in Prescot on 1st January 1895, he joined the 11th Battalion of the King's (Liverpool) Regiment on 24th August 1914 in Liverpool. He crossed to France with the battalion on 19th May 1915. He was later transferred into the 1st/5th Battalion of the same regiment and remained with them until he was demobilised in February 1919.
Late in 1918 as the war moved towards an end, Thomas was awarded the Military Medal and Bar for gallantry. His citations read
"For gallantry whilst one of a patrol on 7th/8th September, 1918 near Festubert. The party coming under heavy machine gun fire from immediate front and flanks, he was foremost in encouraging others about him to rush the Pill Boxes, helping to make good our positions in the captured Posts at a distance of 800 yards from our original line. On the night of 7th/8th September he conveyed important messages to Company Headquarters through a heavy bombardment of the trench system."
and
'At Canteleux during a minor operation on 17 and 18 September 1918. For gallantry and devotion to duty. In the attack on Canteleux Trench on the morning of 18 September 1918, showed great resource and was mainly instrumental in capturing nine of the enemy in a small dug-out in a portion of Strong Point. Having secured them, this man took them across the open to the original point of departure and then immediately returned to advanced positions, where he continued to do good work until the relief of his Company 36 hours afterwards.'
Thomas was discharged in early 1919 and was entitled to the 1915 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
After the war, Thomas returned to civilian life and his pre-war occupation as a Coal Miner before working for Prescot Urban District Council. He then worked with his father as a grave digger at Prescot Churchyard, also tending the graves of those soldiers who had died in the UK and were buried at Prescot. Documents from the Imperial War Graves Commission show his signature on receipts for payment.
In 1926, he married Mary White in the chapel of Whiston Workhouse (now Whiston Hospital) and they went on to have 11 children between 1927 and 1945.
When the 1939 National Register was collated, Thomas and the family lived at 44 Lathum Close, Prescot. The final entry in the listing, shone below, is my late father, James (Jimmy) Nulty.
On the outbreak of the Second World War, Thomas enlisted once again with the King's (Liverpool) Regiment, enlisting on 2nd December 1939. But by now being aged 45, he was discharged on 3rd March 1941 as no longer being fit for military service.
He worked for the remainder of the war on Liverpool Docks, then after the war worked for BICC until he retired in 1960.
Thomas is pictured below with his wife Mary (My nin) at a family wedding at St Luke's in Shaw Lane in 1965
He died in 1970 and is buried in Prescot Churchyard in the same grave as his son Robert (Bobby), who was killed in a below ground accident at Cronton Colliery in 1948 at the age of 15.
Ref. No.: A0052
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