Name
Charles Robert Peck Tompson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
4540
London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
1st/9th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of James Hammond TOMPSON of Watford, and the late Emily Louisa Florence (nee COBBOLD) TOMPSON.
His parents married 1895 in the Paddington, London, district. Emily died 12 August 1902 in Watford aged 32, and was buried 15 August in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; James died 1959 in the Ealing, Middx, district aged 87.
Charles was born 1896 in Watford, and baptised 25 October 1896 at St Andrew’s, Watford. He resided in Watford.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1901 Census, aged 4 he lived in Watford, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a printer’s boy aged 14, he still lived in Watford, with his widowed father and two siblings.
Officially recorded as living in Watford when he enlisted in London.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was presumed killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Charles’ Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH online via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
