William Douglas Baird Thompson
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Distinguished Service Order
Military Cross
British War Medal (1914-20)
Victory Medal (1914-18)
1939-45 Star
France & Germany Star (1944-45)
British War Medal (1939-45)
Silver Jubilee Medal (1935)
Coronation Medal (1937)
Efficiency Decoration
Croix De Guerre (France)
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
Accession Number:
2660.2
Location:
Palace Green
Monarch:
King George V
Type:
Obverse: "GRI" (1915-37)
Naming:
COLONEL W.D.B. THOMPSON (Unnamed)
Accession Number:
2660.3
Location:
Palace Green
Monarch:
King George V
Naming:
CAPT. W.D.B. THOMPSON. Impressed Capitals
Accession Number:
2660.4
Location:
Palace Green
Monarch:
King George V
Bars:
MID (1914-19)
Naming:
CAPT. W.D.B. THOMPSON. Impressed Capitals
Accession Number:
2660.5
Location:
Palace Green
Monarch:
King George VI
Naming:
2023 LT COL. W.D.B. THOMPSON. Impressed Capitals
Accession Number:
2660.6
Location:
Palace Green
Monarch:
King George VI
Naming:
2023 LT COL. W.D.B. THOMPSON. Impressed Capitals
Accession Number:
2660.7
Location:
Palace Green
Monarch:
King George VI
Bars:
MID (1939-45)
Naming:
2023. LT. COL. W.D.B. THOMPSON. Engraved Capitals
Accession Number:
2660.8
Location:
Palace Green
Monarch:
King George V
Naming:
MAJOR W.D.B. THOMPSON. Engraved Capitals
Accession Number:
2660.9
Location:
Palace Green
Monarch:
King George VI
Naming:
LIEUT. COL: W.D.B. THOMPSON. Engraved Capitals
Accession Number:
2660.10
Location:
Palace Green
Monarch:
King George V
Bars:
Bar to Award
Type:
Territorial
Naming:
COLONEL W.D.B. THOMPSON (Unnamed)
Accession Number:
2660.11
Location:
Palace Green
Monarch:
Foreign Award
Bars:
AVEC PALME (MID)
DATED 1914-18.
DATED 1914-18.
Type:
1914-1918 Issue
Naming:
COLONEL W.D.B. THOMPSON (Unnamed)
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