The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R W Thompson


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Private Robert William THOMPSON, 205902, 6th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly Border Regiment, Service No.1632 / 240230), killed in action, Flanders France, 7th September 1918.

Born Cleaton, Moor, Cumberland, son of *Robert & Jane Thompson, 160 Ennerdale Street, Cleaton, Moor, Cumberland.

*1902 December, Whitehaven Registration District, Robert Thompson, died age 47.

1905 March, Whitehaven Registration District, Jane Thompson, married Francis Iredale.


1911 Census - 160 Ennerdale Road, Cleaton, Moor, Cumberland - Francis Iredale, head, age 41, married, iron ore miner, worker, born Egremont, Cumberland; Jane Iredale, wife, age 49, married 6 years, no children, born Cockermouth, Cumberland; Elizabeth Thompson, daughter, age 29, single, born Egremont, Cumberland; Joseph Thompson, son, age 21, single, miners labourer, worker, born Cleaton, Moor, Cumberland; Margaret Thompson, daughter, age 17, single, born Cleaton, Moor, Cumberland; Robert William Thompson, son, age 14, grocers errand boy, worker, born Cleaton, Moor, Cumberland.


Enlisted Egremont, Cumberland.

26th October 1914, posted BEF.

Buried at Fins New British Cemetery, VIII. B. 14., Sorel-le-Grand, Somme, France. Commemorated Cleaton Moor Cumberland War Memorial.


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