Wally Thom
Wally Thom born in Birkenhead, Merseyside an English amateur middleweight and professional welter/middleweight boxer of the 1940s, and 1950s, and referee of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, who as an amateur was runner-up for the 1945 Amateur Boxing Association of England middleweight title, against Randolph Turpin, boxing out of Army ABC, was runner-up for the 1949 Amateur Boxing Association of England middleweight title, against Alan Buxton, boxing out of Birkenhead ABC, and won a silver medal at middleweight in the 1947 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Dublin, Ireland, losing to gold medal winner Aimé-Joseph Escudie of France, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control Central Area welterweight title, BBBofC British welterweight title, European Boxing Union welterweight title, and British Empire welterweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from, i.e. welterweight to, i.e. middleweight. Wally Thom was managed by Johnny Campbell.
