Arthur was born on the 15th June 1895 to George William Thompson and Sarah Patmore. He had three brothers, George, Charles and Frederick. He went to Wilsons school, Camberwell and was captain of the schools football and cricket teams.

On the 28th May 1915 he married Adeline Maud Pope at Eastbourne registry office. They had no children together.

He enlisted in the Territorial Force on the 8th September 1914 with the 2nd County of London Yeomanry. He was commisioned into the 14th Battalion of the Kings, Liverpool regiment on the 2nd April 1915. He was killed on the 3rd September 1916 in the battle for Guillemont on the Somme at the age of 21 years and 3 months.

His wife Adeline eventually emigrated to Canada where on the 14th October 1924 she married Major Duncan Fraser Dewar M.C. who was in the Canadian Expeditionary force in WW1. They had two children, Donald Sinclair and John Edwin "Jack" Dewar.

She died in 1986 at the age of 95.

Gerald Walton