Notes
The Roll lists his address as 36 North Street, Stanground. It misspells his surname as 'Thomspon', and inaccurately states that he died on 21/6/1916.
(CWGC records that Private B. Thompson, regimental number 56598, died aged 19 on 23/6/1918 serving in 18th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, and is buried in grave Q.I.G.10 at St Sever Cemetery Extension at Rouen, France. They record him as the son of Harry Thompson of Littleport, Ely. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he was a native of Welney, Norfolk who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted at Newmarket. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died on 23/6/1918 and that his mother Ellen Malkin was his legatee. Bertram Thompson's birth was registered in Downham District in 1899. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Harry and Ellen Thompson at Welney in Nofolk, which was given as his place of birth. On the 1911 census his mother was living with her 2nd husband Robert Malkin at Victoria Street in Littleport, while "Bert" was staying with his brother George at Welney near Wisbech).