Thomson, Adrian J. R. S/14539 (1890 - 1915)

Corporal, 5th Bn. Cameron Highlanders

Buried at Loos Memorial

Commemorated at Hillhead High School

Corporal Adrian Thomson was the only surviving son of the late Major H. J. Thomson, V.D., and Mrs. Thomson, formerly 41 Elgin Terrace, Dowanhill, and now Ashgrove, Montford, Bute. While at School he was highly popular both with his fellows and teachers. He was an enthusiastic member of the Cadet Corps, and on the formation of B Company of the 6th H.L.I. as a Hillhead High School unit he was one of the first to join. He had a high sense of duty and a passion for service, and gave much of his leisure to the affairs of the Boys' Brigade, in which he was an officer.

When war broke out he did not wait for a commission as he might well have done, in view of his education, character, and training, but entered the ranks. of the Camerons as a private. On the 25th September, 1915, when the Camerons covered themselves with deathless glory, he was reported missing, and nothing has since been heard of him.

Much sympathy is felt for his widowed mother and sisters, all the more so as this is the second sacrifice they have been called upon to make, an elder brother having been accidentally killed by the explosion of a cannon during artillery practice at Troon several
years ago.