I have been searching for information on my late father and have run into endless blanks.
My dad was born in Nottingham in 1903, the second child of William Charles Thomson and Helen nee Brown.
Born in 1903 I would think he was too young to have fought in WW1 (even though he could have lied about his age). I know that he joined the army around the age of 17 and fought in Ireland. Being a rather bolshy teenager, he took on the boxing champion of the army because the said champion had pinched his soap and got his nose broken for his pains. During WW2 he fought all over Europe in the army but had a protective (?) occupation (he was a director of the Uk's largest agricultural firm) but he still went as he thought it was every man's duty to protect his country. I have photographs of him standing by a french churchyard with the Alsace cross behind him which is supposed to have been taken while France was still occupied but I don't really know.
That in a nutshell is all I know which I'd be the first to admit isn't much.
My dad was born in Nottingham in 1903, the second child of William Charles Thomson and Helen nee Brown.
Born in 1903 I would think he was too young to have fought in WW1 (even though he could have lied about his age). I know that he joined the army around the age of 17 and fought in Ireland. Being a rather bolshy teenager, he took on the boxing champion of the army because the said champion had pinched his soap and got his nose broken for his pains. During WW2 he fought all over Europe in the army but had a protective (?) occupation (he was a director of the Uk's largest agricultural firm) but he still went as he thought it was every man's duty to protect his country. I have photographs of him standing by a french churchyard with the Alsace cross behind him which is supposed to have been taken while France was still occupied but I don't really know.
That in a nutshell is all I know which I'd be the first to admit isn't much.
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