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Major WILLIAM FRANK THOMPSON

Service Number: 124039
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 10 June 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SOFIA WAR CEMETERY

Sp. Mem.

Bulgaria

Sofia War Cemetery - special memorial to Major William Frank Thompson, Royal Artillery, who is actually buried at Letakovo.

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward John and Theodosia Jessup Thompson, of Halifax, Yorkshire. Scholar of Winchester College and Scholar of New College, Oxford.
  • Personal Inscription ...THE GLADNESS DUE, THAT WE, WHO ASKED THE MOST OF LIVING, KNEW HOW TO GIVE IT TOO
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Buried or commemorated at

SOFIA WAR CEMETERY
Bulgaria
Number of casualties: 200
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