Private 86290 Charles William THOMPSON

Private 86290 Charles William Thompson{gallery}Pte C W Thompson{/gallery}56th Battalion, Machine Gun Corp
Killed in action at Bullecourt, France and Flanders, 28th August 1918, aged 31

• Buried: Honourable Artillery Company’s (HAC) cemetery, Ecoust-St-Mein, Pas-de-Calais, France. Grave VI.G.5
  
• Awarded British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Charles and Henrietta Thompson
• NNWFHS Memorial: Atherstone and Atherstone Grammar School
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Thompson
• NNWFHS Atherstone War Memorial Page
• Honourable Artillery Company Cemetery
• Machine Gun Corp

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born Jan Qtr 1887 at Atherstone
• Attended Atherstone Grammar School
  
• Lived at Innage Terrace, Atherstone [1911]
  
• Employed as a clerk to corn dealers [1911]
  
• Enlisted 1 Nov 1916