Name: Sergeant Archibald Thomson DCM
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Campbeltown War Memorial, WW1

Rank:

Sergeant

Surname:

Thomson

First Name:

Archibald

Service Number:

79634

Service (Army, Navy etc)

Army

Regiment:

Royal Engineers

Battalion (where appropriate):

176th Tunnelling Company

Date of Death:

02/01/1916

Cemetary:

Gorre British and Indian Cemetary

Cemetary Plot Number

1.G.10

Where Born:

Drumlemble

Where Enlisted:

In the field

Where Lived

Campbeltown

Notes:

Archibald Thomson: Born in Drumlemble, Campbeltown, Argyllshire, to Archibald and Margaret Thomson.

Archibald's DCM Citation:
79634 Corporal A. Thomson, 176th Tunnel Company, R.E. (formerly No. 1424, 1st/8th Btn., Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders, T.P.) (LG 9 Oct, 1515).
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Givenchy on 25th August, 1915, when as Non-Commissioned Officer in charge of the relief at work in a mine he went down the gallery immediately after the end had been blown in
to try and rescue the men at the face. He could not get on as the gas fumes put out his light, but On the arrival of an Officer with a torch he followed him and dragged him out after he had been overcome by the fumes. 
Corporal Thomson collapsed when half-way out and had himself to be rescued.

Photo (If available):

Church:

Lorne Street