W. F Thompson

Bulgaria,s main city of Sofia  its war cemetery is the lasting home to many  fallen servicemen from many countries, not exclusively the Commonwealth. Soldiers from Germany, France, Serbia, South Africa, Romania, Italy, Russia and the UK . A special memorial to a Englishman stands proud today for a young Major Frank Thompson badge with the Royal Artillery onlt to come a memebr of Winston Churchill,s Special Operations Executive,  later to become a popular hero to Bulgarians, Major Thompson was captured in May, and was shot by firing Gestapo squad in early June 1944 in the village of Letakovo Major Thompson was scence standing side by side in battle with Bulgarian partisans. Major Frank Thompson,s  grave, at Letakovo, is not  marked or permanently maintained.

The town near Novi Iskar ("Tompsun") is named after Major Frank Thompson also carrying his name are a kindergarten, railway siding, you can also walk in his foorsteps on a street named after him in the Countys capital of Sofia.  A monument was erected to him and the group of Bulgarian partisans, near the village of  Visit the rural village batuliya and you will come across a monument erected in his mane and his follow freedom frighter fellow Bulgarian partisans.

village of Batuliya.

Many years later, his younger brother, who rose to luminance as one of Britain's