Lt Kenneth SINCLAIR-THOMSON [30112]

  General Notes:

Deaths.
Sinclair Thomson. On Mar 3 (killed in action, Persian Gulf), Kenneth Sinclair Thompson, Lt 21st Indian Cavalry, eldest son of John Sinclair Thompson, The Crossing, Geraldine.
Otago Witness 10 Mar 1915.

THE ROLL OF HONOUR.
DEATH OF LIEUT. K. SINCLAIR-THOMSON. News has been received of the death in action in the Persian Gulf of Lieut. Kenneth Sinclair-Thomson, a New Zcalander. The late Lieut. Kenneth Sinclair-Thomson was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs John Sinclair-Thomson, of "The Crossing," Geraldine. He was 26 years of age, and was born, at Dunedin. He was educated at the Wanganui College, and then went to St. John's College, Cambridge, where ho took his degree in Medicine. He was very keen on soldiering, however, and on leaving the University he entered the Army and obtained a commission in the Bengal Cavalry. It was only quite recently that his parents received news from him that his regiment had been ordered away on active service in Persia, and he had probably only, been in the fighting area a few days when he was killed. Mr Sinclair-Thomson, senr., has two other sons, one in the Navy, who has been serving in a destroyer since the war started, and the other in the Army, the latter having recently obtained a commission in the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders.
Ref: Press Christchurch 6 Mar 1915.