3-065-778 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Captain Herbert W. Thompson, 2nd (Queen's) Dragoon Guards, 1874. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Elliott and Fry. 'Among the officers of our Army whose lives have been sacrificed to the public service in the late war on the Gold Coast the name of Captain Herbert W. Thompson will claim remembrance. This gentleman lately held a commission in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), the date of his captaincy being July, 1867. He volunteered for service in the Ashantee War, and received the appointment of Inspector-General of the Armed Native Police, who were actively employed in the early operations of the campaign. The duties and labours cast on him by this official responsibility, and greatly increased by the zeal with which he devoted his whole energy to their performance, had an exhausting effect upon his bodily strength; and he finally succumbed to the diseases of the pestilential climate of West Africa'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.