Pair: Chief Engine Room Artificer B. H. L. Thompson, Royal Navy, who was killed in action on 5 September 1914, when H.M.S. Pathfinder was sunk by U21 in the Firth of Forth

British War Medal 1914-20 (175938 B. H. L. Thompson. C.E.R.A.1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (175938 B. H. L. Thompson C.E.R.A. 2Cl., H.M.S. Shannon.) small dig to obverse of LSGC, otherwise very fine (2) £70-£90

Bernard Harry Leopold Thompson, a Turner from Greenwich, London, was born on 7 March 1872 and attested for the Royal Navy on 7 September 1893. His LSGC was traced on 10 October 1908 and he was advanced Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st class, on 24 April 1911. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Pathfinder and was killed in action on 5 September 1914 when she was sunk in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, by a torpedo from U21, with the loss of 261 lives. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

Sold with copy service record.