Private Walter Thomson


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Reference WMO/299284

Address:

Broadway Cemetery/Farcet Cemetery

Broadway

Peterborough

PE1 4DD

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: An ornately shaped stone standing on a base, both of which bear the engraved inscription. Entering the Cemetery from the Broadway gate it is on the right side of the tarmac path at the far end of the 13th row of headstones
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In Loving Memory/ of/ WALTER/ PTE 7TH BATTN. QUEENS ROYAL WEST SURREY REGT/ THE YOUNGEST (...) SON OF/ WALTER & EMMA THOMSON/ KILLED IN FRANCE ON AUG 8TH 1918/ AGED 18 YEARS/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN/ LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"/ ALSO OF EMMA, THE BELOVED WIFE OF WALTER THOMSON,/ WHO PASSED AWAY NOV 26TH 1929 AGED 71 YEARS/ NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPING/ AND OF WALTER THOMSON,/ WHO PASSED AWAY JULY 25TH 1933, AGED 76 YEARS

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