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Gnr. Arthur Cyril Thompson
British Army 325th Brigade Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery
from:Willoughby Waterleys, Leicestershire, England
Cyril Thompson enlisted in July 1917 and was sent for training to 81st Infantry Training Reserve Battalion based at Heaton Park Road Schools, Newcastle on Tyne, transferring to Royal Field Artillery (No.1 depot), Fenham Barracks on Barrack Road. On 27th of December 1917 he was posted to Ireland via Bettisfield Park military training camp (near Chester), arriving in Ireland on 29th of December 1917, stationed with 325th Brigade Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery at the Ordnance Barracks, Mulgrave St, Limerick and joined C Battery. Major Traverse Kirkland DSO in charge. Duties included exercising horses, stables, harness cleaning, parades, gun-laying exercises, stand to exercises, musketry course 29th of January 191a, after being kicked on the head by a horse he was hospitalised for 2 days at New Barracks, light duty (confined to Barracks) for a week On 19th of April 1918 after Irish Nationalist disturbances in Limerick, the unit moved to Fermoy (Old Barracks?) On 26th of May 1918 he “Took over the duties as Officer’s Servant for 2/Lt George Bryce Ness, 325th Brigade Ammunition Column.” Then on 6th of June 1918 they noved to Moore Park Camp, Fermoy and in August 1918 he returned to Willoughby Waterleys, Blaby, Leics. for a month for agricultural furlough Cyril 1918-09-05: Returned to his unit 325th BAC RFA at Moore Park on 5th of Sepetmber 1918 and on 10th of October was on the S.S. Leinster when it was torpedoed by a German Submarine in the Irish Sea on the North Wall to Holyhead Route. 813 people were on board, mostly military personnel going on leave or returning from leave, 569 were lost. Cyril returned to England on 29th of October 1918 to join the 482nd Agricultural Company, Labour Corps at Glen Parva Barracks and remained on duty at Mr Kirk's dairy farm Barkby Leicestershire and was helping his older brother Bernard on his farm by December 1918.
