Morice Bell THOMPSON

Ancestral surnames: 

• Thompson, McMahon, Ackers, Smith, Bell, Shaw, Winckworth, Otto (by marriage: Vernor, McMahon, Doran)
• see his family tree drawing via www.groupphoto.co.uk/extra Row 3

Education: 

• The Dragon School, Oxford
• St Edward's School, Oxford
• St John's College, Oxford University

Decorations & Campaign Medals:

• British War Medal, Victory Medal

Memorials: 

• No known grave

• Arras Memorial to the Missing (Bay 10) (one of 34785 names) CWGC

• his Memorial Plaque is framed and on display in St Nicholas’ Church, Fyfield, Oxfordshire (where his father was the vicar)

• St Nicholas’ Church, Fyfield (one of 10 names)

• on his parents’ grave in the churchyard of St Nicholas’ Church, Fyfield

• The Dragon School, Oxford (one of 83 names) - both on a cross in the grounds and on a brass plaque

• St Edward’s School, Oxford (one of 120 names)

• individual memorial board in the chapel of St Edward’s School, Oxford (all old boys killed in the war have one)

• on a metal shield naming all members of the 1910 rugby XV of St Edward's School, Oxford (one of 15 names)

• St John’s College, Oxford (one of 126 names)

Pages in book (www.groupphoto.co.uk/the-book): 163-167

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