In Memory Of
THOMPSON, RALPH INGHAM HAMILTON
Service Details
Age:
18
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
7504
Rank:
Private
Unit:
2nd Regt.
Regiment:
South African Infantry
Date of Death:
1916-10-23
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
III. H. 42.
Cemetery:
DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Localitly:
Somme
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Ralph Keddy Thompson and Emily Phoebe Millicent Thompson, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, England. Commemoration stone in Brakpan Cemetery
