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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 696

(x) Four: Warrant Officer Class II H. R. Thompson, Somerset Light Infantry, late King's Royal Rifle Corps

1914-15 Star (6032 Sjt. H. R. Thompson, K. R. Rif: C.); British War and Victory Medals (6032 A. C. Sjt. H. Thompson, K. R. Rif. C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (6837100 W. O. Cl. II. H. R. Thompson. Som. L. I.), very fine (4)

Herbert Roland Thompson was born in 1881 at Brixton, London. He served in France from 2 February 1915 with the 3rd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, and likely participated in the Second Battle of Ypres in April of that year. In November the Battalion were ordered to Salonika, and between September and October 1916 they were engaged in the capture of Karajakois, followed swiftly by the capture of Yenikoi and then the Battle of Tumbitza Farm where the British fought Austro-Bulgarian troops.

Following the Armistice, Herbert returned home and married Margaret Ellen Chambers in December 1923. He served at the Somerset Light Infantry Depot from 26 February 1923 until his discharge in 1925, and was later Publican of 'The Royal Oak', Porlock, Somerset.


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