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Private JOSEPH WILLIAM THOMPSON

Service Number: 17297
Regiment & Unit/Ship

10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars

Date of Death

Died 18 August 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AUCHY-LES-HESDIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY

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France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Ada Thompson, of Scale Cross, Commondale, York. Native of Castleton, York.
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Buried or commemorated at

AUCHY-LES-HESDIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 5
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