Private Joseph Thompson

Private Joseph Thompson
Photograph of Private Joseph Thompson kindly supplied by Keith Walker

Army Number : 92209 (formerly Driver T4/072538 and 072537, Army Service Corps)

Battalion : 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He lived at Bowerham, Lancaster, Lancashire. Son of John and Dinah Thompson, of 35, Golgotha Road, Bowerham, Lancaster. He was a mill hand prior to enlisting at Lancaster. He went to France 29th July 1915 with the Army Service Corps and was later transferred to the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was killed in action, 4th November 1918, aged 22, in the attack on the German positions at Sebourg, France.

Buried/Commemorated : Sebourg British Cemetery, France. Row A. Grave 26.

Sebourg British Cemetery, France.

Private Joseph Thompson is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
Lancaster War Memorial, Lancaster, Lancashire.