Cecil Henry Thompson

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