Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private E. Thomson, Army Pay Corps, who died of syncope whilst on active service on the Western Front on 3 March 1918

1914-15 Star (1684. Pte. E. Thomson. A.P.C.); British War and Victory Medals (1684 Pte. E. Thomson. A.P.C.); Memorial Plaque ‘Edward Thomson’, the medals mounted court-style for display, nearly extremely fine and a rare casualty to unit (4) £120-£160

Edward Thomson was born in Tayport, Fife, in 1867, and served in France as a Private in the Army Pay Corps from 18 November 1915. Appointed to Base Army Pay Office (Wimereux), he died of syncope - a benign loss of consciousness which can be fatal if caused by underlying cardiac conditions like arrhythmia, heart disease or ventricular tachycardia. He is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, one of only 15 Army Pay Corps soldiers to have died outside the UK whilst on active service during the Great War.