Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Cyril Thompson) mounted in a circular glazed display frame, with Buckingham Palace enclosure to reverse, extremely fine £80-£100

Cyril Thompson attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 December 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 20th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers on 27 March 1917, and serving on attachment to the 18th Battalion, was killed in action on 1 June 1918. He is buried in Martinsart British Cemetery, France.