| Thompson | F A | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Cape Town Highlanders |
| Thompson | F A | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Scots Guards |
| Thompson | F C | | | Source: Medal rolls | Lumsden's Horse |
| Thompson | F C | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | South Staffordshire Regiment |
| Thompson | F D | | | A Division
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | South African Constabulary |
| Thompson | F E | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | South Staffordshire Regiment |
| Thompson | F G | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Gloucestershire Regiment |
| Thompson | F H W | | 2nd Officer | Transport Medal, clasp: China. Ship: Kaifong (China Navigation). Returned to Mint
Source: Transport Medal roll | Transport ships |
| Thompson | F J | | | Source: QSA and KSA rolls | Imperial Light Infantry |
| Thompson | F R | | Boy | QSA (0). Ref: 211.828.
Source: QSA medal rolls | HMS Forte |
| Thompson | F R | | Trooper | Natal 1906 (1)
Source: Recipients of the Natal 1906 Medal | Border Mounted Rifles |
| Thompson | F V | | 2nd Lieutenant | QSA issued 28 Feb 1902. Later on Col Bethune's Brigade Staff. Clasps SA01 and SA02 issued 22 Feb 1905. Invalided home. Medal sent to 5. Redcliffe Sq, London, SW 1 Mar 1902.
QSA (5) CC OFS Tr SA01 SA02
TNA ref 158/1; 158/25; 299/23
Medals held by the RE Museum | Royal Engineers, Field Company, 38th |
| Thompson | F W | | | Source: WO100/280 | Cradock TG |
| Thompson | Fr | 212 | Trooper | Joined 07 Feb 00
Source: Nominal roll in WO127 | Orpen's Light Horse |
| Thompson | Francis R | | | At the age of thirteen, moved by the spirit of adventure, he went up to the diamond fields, working for three years on the Klipdrift diggings. He then started farming on land which formed the nucleus of his Hart's River ranch. In 1878, when the war broke out in the Northern Territories, his father was brutally murdered, and young Thompson, after receiving a wound which cost him part of a rib, and very nearly his life, escaped in a miraculous manner to a neighbour's farm, which he and the owner defended for couple of days and nights, until relieved by a contingent of the old 24th Regiment A few weeks later he joined Sir Charles Warren, and remained with him until the expedition of 1878 was over, when he became, at the age of twenty, Inspector of Natives, with power to settle disputes between the various chiefs. He served as Special Commissioner of Bechuanaland throughout the Stcllaland and Goshen troubles; again with Sir Charles Warren when he turned the Boers out of Rooigrond; and then on the Frontier Commission defining the Griqualand West Boundary. Then at Mr Rhodes' request he undertook the organising of the Compound system at Kimberley, which proved a wonderful success for the mines. After a short stay in Johannesburg, and just after he was appointed Protector of Natives and Government Inspector of Compounds, he undertook for Mr Rhodes to accomplish the first step towards opening up the northern route by obtaining the concession from Lobengula which formed the basis of the charter. Mr Thompson—or Matabele Thompson, as he came to be called familiarly—remained in Bulawayo for two years. He then entered at Oxford, and gave three years to study. On his return to SA he was elected to the Cape Parliament member for Georgetown, and served on the rinderpest Commission. Mr Thompson was married in 1893, his father-in-law having been one of the British Commissioners in the Venezuelan Arbitration in the forties. | Unknown |
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