Corporal Samuel Edgar Thompson (3382573) served in 18th Divisional Provost Company, Corps of Military Police during the Second World War. Born on 27th July 1907, he was the son of the late Samuel Edgar Thompson and Rebecca Thompson of 27 Cumberland Street, Belfast.
Thompson enlisted in the East Lancashire Regiment before transferring to the Corps of Military Police on 23rd August 1940. On 15th February 1942, he fell into enemy hands during fighting in Singapore. He died as a result of illness, suffering from diarrhoea at the Sonkrai Prisoner of War Camp, Malaya on 7th August 1943 aged 35 years old. Samuel had also been a Prisoner of War at Canu Jungle Camp, Thailand.
Samuel Edgar Thompson’s grave is in Section B3, Row D, Grave 10 of Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar. His name is also on a family memorial in Dundonald Cemetery, Dundonald, Co. Down. His headstone in Myanmar bears the inscription:
I know that my Redeemer liveth.