| Regimental number | 2090 |
| Place of birth | Deniliquin, New South Wales |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Occupation | Miner |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 19 |
| Height | 5' 7.5" |
| Weight | 135 lbs |
| Next of kin | Father, Lawrence G Thompson, Smith Street, Outtrim, Victoria |
| Previous military service | Nil (Lived in Exempt Area under the Compulsory Training scheme.) |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 5th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/22/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Lance Corporal |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 46th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 21 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 42 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Lawrence Greno and Ruth THOMPSON, Outtrim, Victoria. Native of Moulamein, New South Wales |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Embarked from Alexandria for Gallipoli, 3 July 1915; taken on strength, 5th Bn, 9 July 1915. Admitted to Anzac Base, Mudros, 12 November 1915; proceeded to rejoin unit, 14 November 1915 (no further details recorded). Disembarked Alexandria, 7 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation). Found guilty, 1 February 1916, of while on Active Service conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline: awarded 3 days' Field Punishment No. 2. Taken on strength, 46th Bn, Serapeum, 31 March 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 2 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 8 June 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal, 1 November 1916; Temporary Corporal, 18 November 1916. Admitted to 12th Australian Field Ambulance (and reverted to Lance Corporal owing to evacuation), 13 March 1917; transferred to 4th Divisional Rest Station, 13 March 1917 (venereal disease); to 51st General Hospital, Etaples, 28 March 1917; discharged to Base Depot, 17 May 1917; rejoined unit, 25 May 1917. Detached for duty at 12th Brigade Headquarters, 6 June 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 8 June 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
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