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Rifleman John Alexander Thompson

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Military service

Service number: G/22778
Age: 32
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: September 13, 1910 Dawsonville, New Brunswick
Enlistment: June 20, 1940 Campbellton, New Brunswick
Death: October 21, 1942 Sham Shui Po Hospital, Hong Kong

Burial/memorial information

SAI WAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: VIII. F. 17.
Additional information
He was baptized “John Augustus Alexander” Thompson and he got married as “John William” Thompson. Son of John William Thompson and Mary Mann. Husband of Hazel Helena Noble, of Dawsonville, New Brunswick.

Enrolled with the North Shore (NB) Regiment, he served in New Brunswick; deployed to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada on 6 October 1940, he served in Newfoundland with Force W, in Québec, in Hong Kong with Force C, where he died as prisoner of war. He had 854 days of service, including 359 overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

Related media

Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 119 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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