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2Lt. David Andrew Graham Thomson
British Army 6th Btn. Black Watch
(d.28th May 1940)
David Thomson was the son of Vice Admiral Evelyn Claude Ogilvie-Thomson, C.B., D.S.O., and of Agnes Ogilvie-Thomson, of Stanley, Perthshire.
He served with the 6th Battalion, Black Watch in WW2. He died 28th of May 1940 aged 20 and is buried in Bas-Warneton (Neerwaasten) Communal Cemetery and commemorated on Dunning War Memorial and also on a plaque located on the tower of St Serf's Church Dunning. The plaque was erected by the War Comforts Committee in memory of the men of the Parish who died 1939-45.
Information about the family and place of burial obtained from Commonwealth War Graves Commission records.