The great-niece of a soldier who was killed in action just weeks before the end of WWI, joined gas workers paying their respects.
Thomas Thompson was 24 when he was killed as his unit advanced into Belgium on October 21, 1918. He is buried in Esplechin, the town where he died.
Before he enlisted, he worked at Caryl Street gas works, which was a huge production plant close to what is now Brunswick train station. His dad, Robert, was a foreman at the site and a memorial stone was engraved and added to a wall at the site.
