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Corporal WILLIAM THOMPSON

Service Number: 44449
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

239th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 12 September 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY

III. E. 8.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Alice Thompson, of 46, Fifth St., Horden, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription TILL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 5916
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