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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Fireman and Trimmer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Fort Franklin (London, England)
Birth:
March 11, 1922
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 16, 1943
Indian Ocean
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 23.
Additional information
Son of Wesley David Thompson and Mary Blanche Marshall from Toronto, Ontario.
The SS Fort Franklin was torpedoed by U-181 on 16 July 1943, at 15:58, and sank southwest of Reunion Island, Indian Ocean, with four crew members, position 22°36'N/51°22'E.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 239 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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