Service Details
Name:
 THOMPSON
Given Name:
 RALPH INGHAM HAMILTON
Initials:
 R I H
Service No:
 7504
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 2nd Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1916-10-23
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Age:
 18
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received in front the Butte de Warlencourt. At 4 a.m. of the 19th October, Germans launched an assault with flame-throwers, driving the South Africans to their original front line. The South Africans were relieved in the night of the 20th-21st October.
Additional
Information:
Son of Ralph Keddy Thompson and Emily Phoebe Millicent Thompson, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, England. Commemoration stone in Brakpan Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Grave Reference:
 III. H. 42.

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