History while in the forces
1914: Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery Territorial Force1915: created Captain
1915: transferred to Heavy Battery with rank of Temporary Major
1916: served in France for 6 months. Broke ankle by fall due to air percussion on bursting of a shell
1916: invalided home: now serving with Home Forces at Chichester
- Surname
- Thompson
- Forename
- Robert Phillip
- Rating or rank
- Major
- Regiment or Other Unit
- 1st/2nd Lancaster Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery 30th County Palatine
- Branch
- Barrow-in-Furness
- Date of Birth
- 04 Oct 1877
- Date of birth
- 1877
- Date of Entering Bank's Service
- 04 Jul 1895
- Date of Joining HM Forces
- 05 Aug 1914
