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Son of Henry and Minnie THOMPSON; husband of Margaret THOMPSON, "Rangemere", Barker Street, Brisbane

George Thompson was born 28 Jan 1892 - Liverpool, Lancashire in England. 
Son of Harry Thompson and Margaret Dove, 1 Alexander Road, Litherland, Waterloo.

 In early 1892, two weeks after the birth of George, his dads life came to a terrible death.

After the death of his father, in February 1892, he and his mother traveled to Australia, and settled in Gunnedah, New South Wales.

George Thompson last post ceremony held at Australian War Memorial in Canberra Sunday 03 March 2024.

George and Harry was the great grandson of Robert Thompson Snr who has established Robert Thompson Shipping Yard and later became JL Thompson and sons after Robert Snr died. After their father Henry's death at Feather Hotel in Liverpool UK Harry, George and mother Minnie moved home to Sunderland in Durham where the family shipyard was located. When the boys was in their early 20s they both was apprentice of the sea at his grandfather's shipping yard in Sunderland. In 1912 George, Nash and Minnie left England and moved to Gunnedah NSW Australia as short after that George moved to Brisbane for work as a labourer then a dental mechanic and Nash stayed in Gunnedah to train and break in horses for a local farm he was a great horseman. Corporal George Thompson In 1914 George meet and married Margaret Graham and located in Warren street in Brisbane. George was enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on the 19th of May 1915 in Brisbane at the time Margaret was 3 months pregnant with their first child and George was allotted to the reinforcements of the 25th Infantry Battalion with the rank of Corporal. On 20th of August 1915 on the boat HMAT Shropshire bound for Egypt then arrived on Gallipoli on the 12 October 1915. Spent next 2 months manning the trenches in Gallipoli peninsula before the battalion evacuated in mid December as the Gallipoli campaign was abandoned. Neville was born on the 4th of November 1915 (Neville died in 2010). George would not meet his son. In early 1916 25th Infantry Battalion defending the Suez Canal at city of Sinai peninsula. 7th February 1916 George was admitted to the seventh field ambulance of a headache and pain in his back of his neck. Over the next 3 days he was transferred to the number 4 Auxiliary Hospital in Cairo. George was declared dangerously ill with Cerebrospinal Meningitis. At 8pm on the 14th February 1916 Corporal George Thompson had come to his death at Auxiliary Hospital in Cairo. He was 24 years old. George remains are buried at the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery plot D 315 as part of the Imperial War Grave Commission headstone was erected over his grave bearing the inscription HIS DUTY DULY NOTED. His Role of Honor is at Australian War Memorial as located at panel 106 in the Commemorative Area with 62,000 Australian's who lost their lives in WW1.