Person    | Male  Born 17/1/1938  Died 5/10/1999

Bryan Tompson

Categories: Tragedy

Bryan Tompson

A freelance engineer, of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 61. According to the monument, Tompson's ashes (and only his) lie buried beneath it. We thought this was odd but, see below.

Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Bryan Edward Tompson was born on 17 January 1938 in London. In 1960 he married Barbara M. Durham in Swindon, Wiltshire and they had four children, Jacqueline M. Tompson, born 1961; Linda T. Tompson, born 1963; Ian M. Tompson, born 1965 and Alan Neil Tompson, born 1970. A former lecturer, he was a freelance engineer living at Mead House, Ampney Crucis, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He died, aged 61 years, on 5 October 1999 when travelling in the front carriage of the 6.03am First Great Western High Speed Train from Cheltenham Spa, Gloucestershire to Paddington when it collided with the 8.06am Thames Trains Turbo train from Paddington to Bedwyn, Wiltshire, at Ladbroke Grove. He was the eldest of 31 victims.

2023: Bryan's son, Ian, contacted us and explained: "It's always hard to decide where the perfect place of your loved ones ashes should have their final resting place. When my mother and I heard that there would be a large monument over looking Ladbrook Grove Train crash site, it just made sense to have my father's ashes buried there. He was born and raised in London and worked all over the world, but loved working again in the capitol, in what were to become his final years."

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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