Three: Acting Serjeant H. G. Thomson, Royal Lancaster Regiment, killed in action, France, 16 August 1916

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4991 Serjt., R. Lanc. Regt. M.I.); British War and Victory Medals (18265 A. Sjt., R. Lanc. R.) good very fine and better (3) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Lancaster Regiment.

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Herbert George Thomson was born in Lambeth, London. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for short service with the Royal Lancaster Regiment at London on 20 January 1896, aged 20 years, 1 month. With the 1st Battalion he served in Malta, November 1897; Hong Kong, November 1897-January 1899 and Singapore, January 1899-March 1900. Promoted to Colour Serjeant, he transferred to the 2nd Battalion in May 1901 and served in South Africa, May 1901-April 1903 but due to a conviction for drunkenness was reduced to Serjeant in January 1902. For the same offence he was reduced to Corporal in September 1905 and was transferred at his own request to the Army Reserve as a Private, being discharged on 19 January 1912. He re-engaged at Shoreditch in 1915. As a Serjeant in the 8th Battalion Royal Lancaster Regiment he was killed in action in an attack near Guillemont, 16 August 1916. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. With copied service papers and other research.