Colour Sergeant ALEX JOHN THOMSON
Last address in Lewis: 20 Battery Park, Stornoway
Son of William Thomson, Buckie
Service unit: Gold Coast Regiment, W.A.F.F., Gordon Highlanders
Service number: 265201
Enlisted at Buckie
Date of death: 9 October 1918 at the age of 23
Died of pneumonia at Kumasi, Gold Coast
Interred: Kumassi European Cemetery [Ghana], grave 20
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial; Nicolson WW1 memorial, right panel
Decoration(s): DCM for gallantry in the field
Stornoway Gazette, 8 November 1918
Mr and Mrs Thomson, 20 Battery Park, have received official intimation that their son, Colour Sergeant Alex John Thomson, DCM, Gordon Highlanders, died of pneumonia at Coomassi on 9 October 1918. Colour Sergt Thomson, who in civil life was an engineer with Mr Gordon, Elgin. He left Buckie with the Territorials as a Pte and was wounded at Neuve Chapelle, after which he returned to France. After promotion to Colour Sergt he was sent to Africa as drill instructor to native troops, attached to the Gold Coast Regiment. He was awarded the DCM for gallantry, and was aged 23.
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