Friday 24 November 2017

Royce Thompson 1895 - 1917

Royal Field Artillery cap badge. Photograph - Public Domain
                 
Born: 1895

Military Service:

Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, 122 Battery, 52nd Brigade
Service number and Rank: 107094 Gunner
Awards: The Victory Medal and the British War Medal

Death:  22nd December 1917

Buried at: Menin Road South Military Cemetery. Belgium.
Grave reference: III.O.6

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Son of George and Elizabeth Thompson, of 24, Rockingham St., Honeywell Mount, Barnsley.

Remembered:

St Marys Church Combined War Memorial Barnsley
Kerbstone on Family plot in Darton Churchyard

Links & Notes:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Lives of the First World War
Everyone Remembered

The wife of Gunner Royce Thompson asked permission to dispose of his medals.