William Douglas Baird Thompson

Accession Number:

2660.1

Location:

Palace Green

Monarch:

King George V

Type:

Silver Gilt Badge (1890 - )

Naming:

COLONEL W.D.B. THOMPSON (Unnamed) William Douglas Baird Thompson Born: 1896 1914: Pte Northumberland Fusiliers 1915: 2/Lt, 9th Bn DLI MC: as S/Lt LG: 18.07.1917 with 9th Bn DLI, Arras, April 1917 DSO and Croix de Guerre: as Lt. LG. 16.09.1918 for action July 1918 CO: East Riding Yeomanry 1940 Captured at Dunkirk, POW to 1945 died : 1978 Note: WW1 scrap album of WDB Thompson in LI Office, Durham