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Herbert Balfe Thompson

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  • Remembered on his parent's headstone in Nottingham Road Cemetery, Mansfield.
Person Details
Stockport.
Parents: Sidney and Emma Thompson of Stone Cross, Woodhouse Road, Mansfield. Left his mother £487 1s and 2d in his will.
Cotton Mill Clerk. Attended Queen Elizabeth School from Sept 1898 and July 1905.
18 Sep 1916
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Captain
6th Bn Lincolnshire Regiment
Enlisted 07/09/1914. Commissioned to Sherwood Foresters on 02/12/1914 as a 2nd Lieutenant then transferred to Lincolnshire Regiment. Promoted in the field whilst serving in Gallipoli.
Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser, 28/09/1916 Photograph printed and a long letter. Killed by a sniper's bullet to his back whilst on way back from checking on his men pinned down by the Germans.
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  • Remembered on his parent's headstone in Nottingham Road Cemetery, Mansfield.
    Herbert Balfe Thompson - Remembered on his parent's headstone in Nottingham Road Cemetery, Mansfield.
  • Buried in Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension.
    Herbert Balfe Thompson - Buried in Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension.

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