Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. Isaac Thompson

British Army Army Cyclist Corps

from:Carlisle

(d.1st July 1916)

My Great Uncle Isaac Thompson was born 1895 in Aikton, Cumberland. He enlisted with his older brother John. He first served with the Cyclist Corps then was transferred to the 19th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. He was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme near Thiepval. His body was never recovered and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. His brother was serving with the Border Regiment and was fighting nearby. He survived the war but never spoke of Isaac.



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