Lance Corporal Charles Robert Thompson

Army Number: 9951

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: M.M. (Military Medal)

Military Medal
British War and Victory Medal

Son of Ralph (S.S.M., 3rd Dragoon Guards), and Lily Thompson. Awarded the Military Medal London Gazette 23.8.1916, For gallantry and devotion to duty during the attack on La Boisselle, on 5th July 1916. Died: 30th April 1917, aged 28.

Buried: Carrington (St. John) Churchyard, United Kingdom. Special side. 7. 8.

Lance Corporal Charles Robert Thompson

His brother Colour Sergeant Major Ralph William George Thompson, M.M.,7th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, also fell in the Great War.