Ivor Howard Thompson
Memorial: Hawkesbury Upton
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 2179 TF
Parents: Mr A K Thompson
Home address: Lisbon House, Hawkesbury Upton, Glos
Pre-war occupation: Delivery Boy
Date of birth: 1894
Place of birth: Hawkesbury, Glos
Date of death: 07/06/1915
Buried/Commemorated at: Ploegstreet Wood, Ploegstreet, Belgium
Age: 21
Further information:
Ivor Howard Thompson was born in Hawkesbury Upton in 1894. He worked as a delivery boy for one of the village grocers and bakers. He had joined the territorials with his best friend, George Hensley in 1913 and was mobilised at the start of the war. In June 1915, he was one of the first of the local territorial battalion to be killed. He was killed by a sniper while in the trenches near Ploegstreet Wood. Ivor served with the 1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. He was killed in action on the 7th June 1915 and is remembered at Ploegstreet Wood, Ploegstreet in Belgium.
Ivor Howard Thompson is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre under Hawkesbury.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Many thanks to the researcher Simon Bendry
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