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Lance Corporal WILLIAM J. THOMPSON

Service Number: 2354
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1942

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY

4. E. 7.

China, (including Hong Kong)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Thompson; husband of Florence Elizabeth Thompson, of Wellington City, New Zealand.
  • Personal Inscription "THE DAY THOU GAVEST, LORD, IS ENDED; THE DARKNESS FALLS AT THY BEHEST"
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Buried or commemorated at

STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY
China, (including Hong Kong)
Number of casualties: 695
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