Memorial to Lieutenant Acland Douglas Thompson, King's African Rifles, late King's Dragoon Guards. Son of William Henry Thompson and Mary Josephine Gordon Thompson (nee Anderson). Baptised on 11 Jun 1887 in Murree, Rawlipindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Educated at Eagle House School 1898 – 1900, Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the King's 1st Dragoon Guards. Killed in action at Mwaika Hill, German East Africa aged 27 years. Lt G E H Reid (4KAR) and Lt Alexander Gordon Sale (3KAR) were killed in the same action and the three officers are buried together in Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania (Lt Thompson in grave 8. D. 10).
Actual burial here
Also commemorated on the Book of Remembrance at Eagle House School, Berkshire; on the Wellington College WW1 memorial in Great School, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/18724), on the Wellington College Roll of Honour (see: https://memorial.wellingtoncollege.org.uk/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=614&TableName=ta_rollofhonour) and on a memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
Actual burial here
Also commemorated on the Book of Remembrance at Eagle House School, Berkshire; on the Wellington College WW1 memorial in Great School, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/18724), on the Wellington College Roll of Honour (see: https://memorial.wellingtoncollege.org.uk/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=614&TableName=ta_rollofhonour) and on a memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
Memorial to Lieutenant Acland Douglas Thompson, King's African Rifles, late King's Dragoon Guards. Son of William Henry Thompson and Mary Josephine Gordon Thompson (nee Anderson). Baptised on 11 Jun 1887 in Murree, Rawlipindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Educated at Eagle House School 1898 – 1900, Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the King's 1st Dragoon Guards. Killed in action at Mwaika Hill, German East Africa aged 27 years. Lt G E H Reid (4KAR) and Lt Alexander Gordon Sale (3KAR) were killed in the same action and the three officers are buried together in Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania (Lt Thompson in grave 8. D. 10).
Actual burial here
Also commemorated on the Book of Remembrance at Eagle House School, Berkshire; on the Wellington College WW1 memorial in Great School, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/18724), on the Wellington College Roll of Honour (see: https://memorial.wellingtoncollege.org.uk/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=614&TableName=ta_rollofhonour) and on a memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
Actual burial here
Also commemorated on the Book of Remembrance at Eagle House School, Berkshire; on the Wellington College WW1 memorial in Great School, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/18724), on the Wellington College Roll of Honour (see: https://memorial.wellingtoncollege.org.uk/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=614&TableName=ta_rollofhonour) and on a memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
Inscription
Lieutenant 4th Bn, King's African Rifles (late Lieut. King's Dragoon Guards) Killed in action, in his 28th year, on 9th March 1915, at Mwaika Hill, East Africa, where he is buried. (Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery)
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