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|Surname and forenames=Thompson Richard
|Army number=4438377
|Rank=WO III
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|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry 7/7/1920 at Sunderland aged 18 and nine months.  Discharged as a Private with a Good Conduct record 10/1/1921 on having joined the Regular Army.  Enlisted in the West Yorkshire Regiment 11/1/1921.  Re-enlisted in the Royal Artillery.  Posted to 125th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.  To Command Course, YORK, 15/1/1940.  Left Regiment before Far East service?
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|Home address=Labourer, born Earlstown, Lancashire.  Next of Kin, mother - Mrs Alice Maud Thompson of Deptford, Sunderland.
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