Name
Charles John McKinnon Thompson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/03/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Northumberland Fusiliers
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 8 and 12.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 10 Jan 1893 in Tudhoe, Durham son of the Rev. S. McKinnon Thompson, Vicar of Northallerton and Edith Rose (Prest) Thompson. Educated at Haileybury College 1907-10 and Durham University (Civil Engineering). He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Special Reserve of Officers on 18 Apr 1914 and promoted Lieutenant on 12 Aug 1915. Entered France on 29 Sep 1914 attached to the Northumberland Fusiliers. Acted as Assistant Town Major at Bailleul, 1915-16. He was recalled to his Regiment on 15 Mar 1916 and was killed in action at the Battle of St Eloi by a shell while he was in the second German trench. He was buried on the battlefield, but his body was not recovered.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
