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Thompson Family

Wilfred F Thompson; James F Thompson; A R Thompson

Drums of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, at Lydd 1914, with W R Thompson and R A Thompson
Accession Number: KO1307/01

Soldiers of the King’s Own at Bowerham Barracks, circa 1919 with three guns, possibly captured German Guns.
Soldiers wear the 1914 Star/1914/15 Star ribbon, overseas service chevrons and wound stripes in the photograph.
Accession Number: KO1307/02

James F Thompson, on the edge of a cliff, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Accession Number: KO1307/03

James F Thompson, in uniform
Accession Number: KO1307/04

Wilfrid R Thompson, Jun or Jul 1913 at Lydd, photo taken just after Parade.
Accession Number: KO1307/05

Five members of the band off duty in India, pre 1914
Accession Number: KO1307/06

Major Henry Dearden Matson, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Photographed during the First World War.
Service: 2nd Lieutenant 19 May 1900 from Natal Mounted Rifles. Served in South Africa 1901 in the Mounted Infantry. Left 1902.
Note: This officer served with the King’s Own in the First World War. He went overseas on 31 May 1915 and was with the 1st King’s Own in July 1916. Later transferred to MGC – being awarded 1914/15 Star, War and Victory Medals Colonel Keith makes no reference to his service after 1902.
Accession Number: KO1307/07

Shrapnel from Beaumont Hamel, First World War relating to W R Thompson
Accession Number: KO1318/01 A

Shrapnel from Beaumont Hamel, First World War relating to W R Thompson
Accession Number: KO1318/01 B

Shrapnel from Beaumont Hamel, First World War relating to W R Thompson
Accession Number: KO1318/01 B

W R Thompson
Accession Number: KO1318/02

W R Thompson
Accession Number: KO1318/03

Christmas Card from Ellis Williams to Lieutenant W R Thompson, Christmas 1917
Accession Number: KO1318/04

The Royal Flying Corps Loose-Leaf Note Book of Lieutenant W R Thompson formerly 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1318/05

Drum Major Wilfrid R Thompson at Dover 1913-14
From Mrs Bower, donor, daughter of Thompson. “Drums at Dover
My father as Drum Major had an eventful time with the Boys in the Drums, while they were at Dover Castle. Their worst exploit was the scaling of some part of the building, and the destruction of a chimney by pushing it until it fell from the roof to the ground.
Punishment was by caning of bared rear, the culprit leaning over a table and the rest of the boys drawn up in a semi-circle to witness what might befall them. The Drum Major officiated. My father hated these occasions; once he jibbed and delegated the duty, since the victim was the son of a former Drum Major who had given him the treatment some 10 years before.
These were no doubt the boys who were reported to have fired the first British shots of the war in Dover Harbour…..”
Accession Number: KO1318/06

Lance Sergeant Wilfred R Thompson in Barracks in India, circa 1910, sat on his bed.
Accession Number: KO1318/07

Naini Tal 1910
Accession Number: KO1318/08

Sergeants Mess Saltash, 1915
Accession Number: KO1318/09

James F Thompson, circa 1910 with hand cart
Accession Number: KO1318/10

James F Thompson, India circa 1910
Accession Number: KO1318/11

Drawing Choonbutty Loop, Darjeeling, Himalayan Railway, by Wilfred R Thompson
Accession Number: KO1318/12

This sketch map of Cantonment (quarters for troops), Shwebo, Burma was done by Lance Corporal Wilfred R Thompson of the 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment as part of his examination to become a sergeant.

Sketch Map
Accession Number: KO1318/13

Detail showing: Various quarters, including band, drums, companies, sergeants mess, mounted infantry stables, regimental institute etc.

Detail, showing: Officers Quarters, Married Quarters, Stables, IOGT (Temperance organisation), Company accommodation etc.

Issue Voucher to 2nd Lieutenant Wilfred R Thompson, 30 Apr 1916, Officers kit.
Accession Number: KO1318/14

Letter to Lance Sergeant W Thompson re money from the India Office, 6 Mar 1912
Accession Number: KO1318/15

Envelope to Lance Sergeant W R Thompson, 14 Mar 1912
Accession Number: KO1318/15 a

Postcard Burmese Actress
Accession Number: KO1318/16

WO Form 267 Account Book and WO Form 268 Monthly Settlements, Clothing Account and Saving’s Bank Account to Richard Davies, number 2230, 2nd/4th Regiment of Foot. Named changed to Richard Thompson, in 1895 and shown as 3rd Battalion, Liverpool Regiment.
Enlisted 24 Oct 1878, book used 1878-1895
Accession Number: KO1318/18

Mounted letter from the national Service League dated 8 Aug 1907 signed by Field Marshal Lord Roberts,
Accession Number: KO1318/19

Drawing of the memorial to Colonel John Piper
Accession Number: KO1318/20

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