Pte Percival 'Percy' THOMPSON
(1887 - 1916) | | | bd. | Nov 1887; Bollington, Cheshire UK | | bpd. | 13 Nov 1887; St John's, Bollington, Cheshire UK | | dd. | 2 Sept 1916, age 28; Culballa War Hospital, Bombay, India | | brd. | India | | stat. | WWI, died in action | | occ. | Newsagent at Bollington Cross | | rel. | Anglican | | mil. | WWI, Army Service Corps | | res. | 1891: Bollington Cross
1901: Moss Lane, Lowerhouse
1911: Moss Brow, Lowerhouse, Bollington, UK | | src. | [73],[82] |
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Notes for Percival 'Percy' THOMPSON In WWI served in 596th Motor Transport Company Army Service Corps
M2/131605. Enlisted 13 October 1915 at Manchester, served in Mesopotamia,
where he contracted enteric fever and was invalided to Culballa War
Hospital in Bombay, India, on 4 August 1916. He died there on 2 September
1916 aged 28 and is named on the Kirkee Memorial, near Poona, India, and
on both the old and new memorials in Bollington, and at St Oswald's. He
has a separate memorial in St Oswald's church. [73]
Sources | 73. | Book, Roy Arnold & Dave Williams, 2011, Bollington 1914-1918 ... and more, Anglican Parish of Bollington |
| 82. | Email, Debra Burgess, 31 March 2006 |
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