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John Thompson

Corporal

Service No. 2481

Age 24

Died on 30 September 1915

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Thompson, of Home Farm, Mayfield, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

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Henry Harrison

John, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Karen Duke

Remembering our Great Uncle 'Jack', even though we never met him.

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John, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalions...

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