Name: Henry Lewis Thompson

                         Branch of Service: U.S. Army

                         Unit: Battery A, 342nd Armored Field
                         Artillery Battalion

                         Rank: T5

                         Dates of Service: 9/5/1942-11/24/1945

                         Theater of Service: Europe-African-
                         Middle Eastern, American

Henry Lewis Thompson was born on September 26, 1915, in Scottsville, Fluvanna County, Virginia; he was the son of Charles Edwin Thompson and Bessie Ellen (Kirby) Thompson.  Henry married Elva Texie Bourne on July 4, 1952, in Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia.  Henry passed away on September 3, 2001, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he is buried in Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery in Scottsville, Virginia.