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Military service
Service number:
E/30427
Age:
19
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
April 27, 1922
Glen Levit, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
September 2, 1940
Matapédia, Québec
Death:
December 21, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. F. 18.
Additional information
Son of Augustus Oswald Thompson and Ethel Marguerite Boudreau, of Glen Levit, Restigouche, New Brunswick. Brother of Bernard M. Thompson, service number E-30541, Royal Rifles of Canada, prisoner of war in Hong Kong and in Japan, and Charles P. Thompson, service number G-22145, C Company, North Shore (NB) Regiment, who served in Europe during the Second World War. They survived the war.
Morton served in Québec, in Newfoundland with Force W and in Hong Kong with Force C. He had 841 days of service, including 420 overseas.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
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Grave Marker
Rifleman MORTON GEORGE CLINTON THOMPSON is one 283 Canadian soldiers, 107 of whom are unidentified, who are buried at Sai Wan War Cemetery in Hong Kong. He died of wounds substained during the defense of Hong Kong which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. In total, 290 Canadian soldiers were killed and 493 were wounded in this battle. -
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Rifleman MORTON GEORGE CLINTON THOMPSON was reported to have Died of Wounds in the Canadian Army's 243rd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8th, 1943. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
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Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
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Rifleman Morton George Clinton Thompson
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Rifleman Morton George Clinton Thompson
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Rifleman Morton George Clinton Thompson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 46 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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