Private, Scots Guards, 1st Battalion
Service no. 9014
Killed in action on 27 September 1915, aged 18
Remembered at Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Enlisted in Stratford, Essex
CWGC: "Son of Harry and Helen Thompson, of 28, Nelson's Row, Clapham, London."
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Cecil Thompson, then a 13-year-old schoolboy, was living in four rooms at 28 Nelsons Row, Clapham with his parents and five siblings. His father, Harry Thompson, 46, a motorcar driver for the London County Council, was from Hackney; his mother, Ellen (or Helen) Thompson, 44, was from Clerkenwell.
The siblings were
Rose Thompson, 18, was a shop assistant for a confectioners
Edith Thompson, 10
Gladys Thompson, 6
Sidney Thompson, 5,
Doris Thompson, 1
All were born in Clapham