Notes
The Roll lists his address as The Lindens, Lincoln Road. It wrongly states he died on 13/2/1915; he actually died on 25/1/1915.
(CWGC records that Second Lieutenant J C C Thompson died on 25/1/1915 serving in the 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) attached to the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, and is commemorated on Panel 47 of Le Touret Memorial in France.
The birth of John Cecil Caster Thompson was registered in Peterborough District in 1881. He was baptised on 15/5/1881 at St Mark's Church in Peterborough as the son of John and Mary Thompson of The Lindens, Lincoln Road. He attended The King's School in Peterborough (on whose War Memorials he is commemorated) and Uppingham School, before entering Pembroke College, Cambridge in October 1900. He graduated B.A. in 1903.
The marriage of John Cecil Caster Thompson to Norah Kathleen Davenport on 11/7/1907 was recorded in the Marriage registers of St Mark's Church in Surbiton, which recorded him as a solicitor of 8 Claremont Gardens, Surbiton. On the 1911 census John and his wife were living with Norah's mother Kathleen Davenport at Rodbury, Uxbridge Road, Kingston on Thames, Surrey. John's address for Probate was 12 Fitz James Mansions , West Kensington , Middlesex).