Thomas Waigth left New Zealand for the war in 1843 and at the end of 1944 was serving with 25 Infantry Battalion in Italy.
The Battalion's Official History has this to report on the day that Thomas died:
On the battalion front the early part of the night was comparatively quiet though many flash-bearings of enemy guns were received from companies and passed on. A Company (Captain Norton-Taylor) picked up a prisoner and sent him in; he proved to be a Pole who had deserted from 278 Division. At 1 a.m. (21 December) on D Company reporting it was being attacked, artillery DF tasks and MMG fire were called for and the attack did not develop. All was quiet for a time but by 6 a.m. the three forward companies had asked for DF tasks because of harassing fire at various times during the night from enemy machine guns and mortars. D Company's standing patrol in a house on the left of C Company saw no enemy movement but had one man killed by shellfire.
The Battalion suffered only one death on the 21st and it can be safely assumed that Thomas Waigth was the man killed by enemy shellfire.
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