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Military service
Service number:
551151
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), R.C.A.C.
Death:
March 30, 1918
Burial/memorial information
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Son of William Thompson, of Mount Julian, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John James Laing Thompson
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Photo of Lang Thompson
Picture of Lang Thompson in his uniform in the frame found by me in an old trunk. His Mother put the cloth poppy on the frame and we have never removed it. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John James Laing Thompson
Digital gallery of
Private John James Laing Thompson
Digital gallery of
Private John James Laing Thompson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 512 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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