Second Lieutenant John George Thomson


Bedfordshire And Hertfordshire Regiment, 70th Battalion, 45928

Date of Birth: 3rd quarter of 1891
Place of Birth: Brentford, Middlesex
Date of Death: 13th of November 1940
Buried: Teignmouth Old Cemetery, plot RR100

Awarded the 1939-45 Star, and the War Medal 1939-1945

Son of Mary Thomson nee Bryett, a widow, born 1849, Calcutta, India.

In the 1901 census,  John, brother Geoffrey Oliver, and his mother Mary are living at 3, Brandreth Road, Streatham, Wandsworth, London. Head of the house was Edward G Thomson, 1868, a Stockbrokers Clerk, and his wife Florence A Thomson, 1872.  Also living at this address was Ethel M Bryett, Sister-In-Law, 1874, Edgar P Bryett, Brother-InLaw, 1879, a Bankers Clerk, and Eleanor C Templeton, Cousin, 1875, India.

In the 1st quarter of 1910, John married Queenie May Howlett at Wandsworth, London.

In 1911, John, Queenie and his family are boarding at Glencoe, Brunswick Square, Herne Bay, Kent. John was a Telegraphist. John and Queenie have a daughter, Parna Amy Thomson aged 9 months. Geoffrey Oliver Thomson, 1897, at school, William Eric Thomson, 1902.

Bedfordshire And Hertfordshire Regiment

John died on the 13th of November 1940 but no reason was listed.

Second Lieutenant John George Thomson, Bedfordshire And Hertfordshire Regiment, 70th Battalion, 45928Second Lieutenant John George Thomson, Bedfordshire And Hertfordshire Regiment, 70th Battalion, 45928

 

thomson jg headstone picSecond Lieutenant John George Thomson, The Bedfordshire And Hertfordshire Regiment, 13th of November 1940 

 

 

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