Family :

Education & Career :

Went to the Argentine and worked for the BUENOS AYRES MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY, LIMITED.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

Served as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal West Kents in France from May 1916. After recovering from a wound, he was fit enough for garrison duties and was moved into the 2nd Garrison battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment, stationed in India.

See also: Biographies of the Bedfordshire Regiment.

THOMPSON, Capt. Herbet Richard. 2nd Garrison Bn. Bedfordshire Regt. Died of sickness 3rd May, 1918. Age 34. Son of Thomas Richard and Ellen Thompson, of Gillingham, Kent. Returned home from the Argentine Republic to offer his services in 1914. Served in France, 1915-16. (Buried Karachi Cem. A/E. A. 6.).

Masonic :

Discrepancies (Require checks, clarity or further research) :

Joined Union Lodge No. 767 in Karachi, Bombay on the 12th October 1917 from Victoria Lodge, Buenos Aires No. 2329.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley