Walhalla Cemetery

The Walhalla Cemetery is a cemetery near Atakpame in Togo. The cemetery contains a single Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) gravestone, that of Lieutenant George Masterman Thompson of the 1st Battalion Royal Scots. Thompson's death in the Togoland Campaign made him the first British officer killed in the First World War. Thompson was killed on 22 August 1914 aged 24 while trying to storm the German trenches while in command of French Senegalese troops at Chra Village. He was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palms.[1][2]

References
  1. "Walhalla Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  2. "South Africa War graves Project: Service details". South African War Graves Project.

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