Participant Info

Surname

Thompson

First Name

Edward

Initial

L

Service Number

2982

Rank

lance-corporal

Unit Served

37th Battalion

Service Record

France, Belgium

Enlistment Date

1916

Enlistment Month

September 6

Embarkation Year

1916

Embarkation Month

November 3

Date of Death

1917

Month of Death

October 12

Death Category

KIA

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 92, image page 90

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

John W. and Mary A. Thompson

Parental Address

"Lilyville", Crinan Street, Hurlstone Park

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

"born at Jodja Creek, July 3, 1894, educated Mittagong and Dulwich Hill Public Schools, commission agent, enlisted August 1916, embarked November 3, 1916. War service: France. Lance Corporal E. L. Thompson made the supreme sacrifice at Passchendaele Ridge