Son of Gerald P. Thompson, of Sterling, Carnarvon. b. 4 October 1886. A South African rugby union player from Carnarvon in South Africa, where he attended Rondebosch Boys' High School. Thompson took part in the 1912-13 South Africa rugby union tour as an outside centre, and was capped in three tests, against Scotland, Ireland and Wales all in 1912. He played for Western Province