29450. Private Vincent Maurice Thompson

8th. (Service) Battalion, Border Regiment. Formerly 45314. Private Leicestershire Regiment. Born 1889 in Earl Shilton. Enlisted in Leicester. Killed in Action on Wednesday 10th. April 1918, aged 19, during The Battles of The Lys (The Battle of Estaires) 9th. - 11th. April 1918. Lost Without Trace. No Known Grave. Known Unto God. Commemorated on Panel 6 of The Ploegsteert Memorial to The Missing in Berks Cemetery Extension, Belgium. Son of John and Edith Thompson of 9 Hill Top, Earl Shilton, Leicester. 81 of Vincent’s Comrades from the Battalion also Fell on the same day, including:

17570. Private Ernest Graham M.M.

26078. Sergeant Alfred Nelson M.M.

27376. Corporal George Pickup D.C.M.

together with the following 2 Officers:

Second Lieutenant William Carter Preston

Second Lieutenant John William Anderson Allen M.C.

Vincent is also Commemorated on The Earl Shilton War Memorial, together with his brother Augustus Hugh Thompson who also Fell during The Great War.

20896. Private Augustus Hugh Thompson

9th. (Service) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Born 1896 in Earl Shilton. Killed in Action on Friday 14th. July 1916, aged 20. Lost Without Trace. No Known Grave. Known unto God. Commemorated on Pier and Face 2C and 3A of The Thiepval Memorial to The Missing, Somme, France.

1914 -1914  LEST WE FORGET

"THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD, AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD, AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN, AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING,WE WILL REMEMBER THEM". 1914 -1919

LEST WE FORGET

ERECTED IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE BY THE PARISHIONERS OF EARL SHILTON 1920

RESTORED 1948

Barry Jenkins