Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Driver L. Thompson, Royal Engineers

1914 Star (678 Dvr: L. Thompson. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (678 Dvr. L. Thompson. R.E.) extremely fine (3) £60-£80

Leslie Thompson, a bricklayer’s labourer, was born in Bedford around 1879 and attested for the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1897. Initially sent to the 2nd Battalion, he transferred to the Royal Engineers on 1 February 1898 and served in South Africa during the Boer War with the 23rd Field Company from 19 September 1899. Posted to France from 23 August 1914, Thompson survived the Great War but died of tuberculosis at home in Colchester on 4 August 1924.