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2nd Lt. Ellis Thompson
British Army 18th Btn. D Coy. Durham Light Infantry

(d.18th May 1917)
Ellis Thompson was born on 10th of July 1896, to William Thompson, a butcher, and his wife Mary, living and working in Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Ellis attended Barnard Castle School for three years from 1909, where he was in York House and played football and cricket for the second house XI.
He enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers in August 1914, he served with the 4th Btn. and was wounded in April 1915 and killed in action near Arras in 1917 with D Company, 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry. Aged 20, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

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