Decorations: Combat Infantry Badge, Bronze Star, Purple Heart Brother of Ernie, Tommy was also a celebrated equestrian, who often rode with the Norfolk Hunt Club in Medfield. We remember the times he took our breath away by riding and jumping bareback. Graduated Millis High School in 1933. Good football player. Very personable and well liked. Caught in ambush, he was killed by a gunshot wound to the abdomen. His buddy Orlando Giallanardo, who was with him on the fatal patrol, says, "He was the bravest man I ever knew." He left behind his wife Gladys and his daughter Bonny Jean. The Clewes brothers are buried side by side in the American Military Cemetery in Manila, The Philippines. Their monuments are also side-by-side in Waite Park in the Rockville section of Millis.

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