THOMPSON – William HEIC Bengal Artillery 2nd Battalion

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Name	THOMPSON – William
Regiment (s)	Honourable East India Company Bengal Artillery 2nd Battalion
Regiment Number (s)	Discharge no 119
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	1st July 1828 / 19 years / London England Clerk
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 10 in Fresh / Blue / Sandy / Two fingers left hand “smashed in Khyber Pass”
Overseas Service/Duration	India – To India Lady Melville 6th January 1829 From India Sutlej August 1851
Length of Service	22 years 1 month
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Gunner / 8th August 1851 / Not stated
Campaign Medals	Not yet known
Intended Residence at Discharge	Mount Charles West Sligo Ireland
Pension Districts	1851 2nd Dublin 1853 – 1856 Western Australia (Fremantle) 1857 Calcutta
Pension Paid	1 /4d per diem (Pension No 119)
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	2nd February 1853 Portsmouth England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	PYRENEES 30th April 1853
Date/Place of Birth	c1809 Ballyshannon Donegal Ireland
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	THOMPSON William
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	HEYDEN Anne father Patrick HEYDEN c1833 possibly Carlow Ireland
Date/Place of Marriage	6th March 1852 St Mark Dublin Ireland
Children by 1^st Wife	Catherine b 23rd March 1853 on board the Pyrenees (birth not recorded by surgeon but apparently by the religious Instructor Catherine Bowyer Wright Thompson) Bp 13th May 1853 Fremantle WA (mother Hyden) Leticia b 1st September 1855 Fremantle WA (mother Headon) Bp 1st September 1855 Fremantle WA D 8th November 1855 Bur St Patricks Skinner Street Cemetery Fremantle WA
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	24th June 1854 Appointed to police without sanction of Commanding Officer
Newspaper Articles	None known
Departure from Western	Late in 1856 ship unknown
Date/Place of Death/Burial	Several possible deaths in India 26th December 1856 and 14th November 1862
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	Bur1st September 1855 St Patrick’s Skinner street Cemetery Fremantle WA
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	Discharge due to two fingers of his left hand being smashed in the Khyber Pass Surgeon’s Journal Pyrenees Sick list: January 2nd 1853 William Thompson age 45 treated for phlegmon aboard the Pyrenees. February 3rd Mrs Thompson age 19 was treated for constipation Charged with military offences in 1853-54 (Drunkenness and resisting arrest) There is an Anna Thompson buried St Patrick’s Skinner street Cemetery born and baptised 2nd October 1855 a month after Leticia’s birth. Pension paid Fremantle to 31st December 1856. The pension department in India was instructed to mark a stoppage of £7/17/10 for his wife’s passage to Australia; however there is no record of him actually being paid in Bengal although he is named on the pension list.