Wartime Service
As the Second World War threatened, Thomas enlisted in 1938 in a Territorial battalion of the Royal Fusiliers as a Fusilier, equivalent in rank to a Private. In 1940 he was commissioned into the Royal Norfolk Regiment. While in the Army, he wrote a two-volume work "Selections Illustrating the History of Greek Mathematics" which was published by the Loeb Classical Library; he was promoted to Captain in 1941.
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