237th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (British Army)
Died:
12/11/1917 (Died)
Age:
Summary
William Thompson was born at Meenan, County Down. Meenan lies about halfway between Banbridge and Newry. William lived for a while in Tandragee, County Armagh. William Thompson moved to Cookstown to work and lived for a number of years at 12 Fortview Terrace, Chapel Road with his wife Mary and their five children, William, Samuel, Alice, Jean and Violet. William Thompson enlisted with the Royal Garrison Artillery in Belfast. Gunner William Thompson was serving with the 237th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery when he ‘died at the front’ on Monday 12th November 1917.
Further Information
William Thompson was born at Meenan, County Down. Meenan lies about halfway between Banbridge and Newry.
William lived for a while in Tandragee, County Armagh.
William moved to Cookstown to work and lived for a number of years at 12 Fortview Terrace, Chapel Road with his wife Mary and their five children, William, Samuel, Alice, Jean and Violet.
William Thompson enlisted with the Royal Garrison Artillery in Belfast.
Gunner William Thompson was serving with the 237th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery when he ‘died at the front’ on Monday 12th November 1917.
Gunner W Thompson is buried in Neoux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery Extension, France. The inscription on the headstone reads: ‘Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord’
The cemetery at Noeux-les-Mines was chiefly used by 6th and 7th Casualty Clearing Stations between August 1917 and December 1918.
William Thompson is commemorated on the Tandragee War Memorial.
The CWGC record Gunner W Thompson as the husband of Mary Thompson of Killymoon Street, Cookstown, County Tyrone.
