Current Information:

Age-26

36, Perth Road, Stroud Green

Etaples Military Cemetery, France

During the First World War each infantry division included a Royal Engineers Signals Company of over 150 men, whose main duties were laying, operating and repairing telegraph communications wire. They were also used to carry messages and to handle and despatch official and private mail. The signallers were also used in forward positions to assist the artillery and provide information on their enemy targets. In these, often isolated, positions they were vulnerable to enemy fire, and many of them became casualties.

Alexander Thomson died from wounds on 11th August, 1917, after having been sent to a base hospital on the coast, but as yet there is no information as to when and where he was wounded. In the summer of 1917 the 36th Division had been in action during the Battle of Messines and then during the opening phases of the Third Battle of Ypres.