Name
Frank Dickinson Thompson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/01/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
15th (County of London) Bn., attd 17th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ESSEX FARM CEMETERY
III. A. 37.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Central Methodist Church Memorial, Letchworth*1
Pre War
Born Colwyn Bay, County Denbigh on 20th February 1893, son of the Rev. John Moses, a Wesleyan Minister, and Elizabeth Thompson, of 355, Norton Way South, Letchworth.
Educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow & Kingswood School, Bath.
1911 resident at 22 Green Lane, Letchworth. Lived at 355 Norton Way South, Letchworth, Herts.
He worked as a publishers Clerk, before joining the Civil Service Rifles on 28th September 1915.
Wartime Service
Enlisted as Pte, 28th London Regt (4664). Commissioned 15th London Regt 02/06/1916.
He was killed in action near Ypres, Belgium.
Additional Information
*1 The F Thompson that appears on this memorial is believed to be this man. It is possible that he appears as E D Thompson on the Letchworth Town Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Dan Hill, Janet Capstick, Jonty Wild
