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Driver WALTER CHARLES THOMPSON

Service Number: 522293
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

486th (East Anglian) Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 27 November 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

E. 229.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jack and Alice Thompson, of 98, Margetts Rd., Kempston, Bedford. Enlisted in this unit at age of 15.
  • Personal Inscription SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS SLEEP OUR LOVED ONE, SLEEP
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Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 3066
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