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Wally Thom (14 June 1926 — 1980 (aged 53)) born in Birkenhead was an English amateur middleweight and professional welter/middleweight boxer of the 1940s and ’50s and referee of the 1950s ’60s and ’70s who as an amateur was runner-up for the 1945 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) middleweight title against Randolph Turpin (Leamington Spa ABC[1]) boxing out of Army ABC was runner-up for the 1949 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) middleweight title against Alan Buxton[2] (Harrow ABC) 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 (BBBofC) Central Area welterweight title BBBofC British welterweight title European Boxing Union (EBU) welterweight title and Commonwealth welterweight title (twice) his professional fighting weight varied from 145 1⁄4 lb (65.9 kg; 10 st 5.3 lb) i.e.