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apanderson
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 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject: John Thompson |
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JOHN THOMPSON, killed at Ypres, 1915
Son of Ross and Dinah Thompson
(Glasgow Western Necropolis)
Can't find him either!!
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spoons
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No sign of him in the cemeteries at Ypres or on the Menin gate memorial. Best bet might be to try the Glasgow roll of honour to try and find a date of death.
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Adam Brown
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I agree with Paul. For such a common name you need something else.
If you've been trawling through the CWGC databases you'll maybe have noticed that for some reason quite a lot of entries for 1915 have no family details. This makes it very difficult to identify a name.
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spoons
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Of course it would be even worse if the year of death was wrong, the surname was Thomson instead of Thompson and John was actually a second christian name, all of which we have seen before. Even a regiment would help.
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David McNay
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There are two John Thompsons on the Glasgow Roll of Honour, and about a dozen John Thomsons.
I'm about to go out but will post details later.
Paul, the Glasgow Roll on lists name, rank, regiment and address. No dates unfortunately. |
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