On the Arras Memorial, France is the name of 4/1732, 200409 Second Lieutenant Ellis Thompson, serving with ‘D’ Company, 18th (Service) Battalion Durham Light Infantry formerly 4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers who died 18/05/1917.

The son of William and Mary Emma Thompson, of 7, Gordon Square, Whitley Bay, Northumberland. he enlisted August 1914 and previously wounded April 1915.

In Whitley Bay (St. Paul’s) Churchyard is a family headstone which reads:

In
loving remembrance
of
William Thompson
born April 4th 1859
died October 8th 1912
2/Lt. Ellis Thompson, D.L.I.
born July 10th 1896
killed in action – Gavrelle
May 18th 1917
Mary Emma Thompson
born March 27th 1863
died January 8th 1956
Norman Ellis Thompson
born December 26th 1891
died at Dumfries May 13th ?1961

His brother Norman Ellis Thompson is listed in W84.30, on page 16.

Ellis Thompson is remembered at Barnard Castle School on B135.04, and B135.20 at  Whitley Bay on W84.01, and W84.28, also at Durham in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance, page 122.