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Military service
Service number:
R/82736
Age:
26
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class I
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
619 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
August 18, 1943
Ustrup, Denmark
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Allied Military Plot. Row 3. Coll. grave 10.
Additional information
Son of Isaac and Effie May Thompson, of Cornwall, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson
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Memorial
Memorial stone erected near site of crash. Story and photo courtesy Airwar Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com. Lancaster EE117 took part in the special raid on Peenemünde, the German research establishment on the Baltic coast where V2 rockets were being built and tested. While returning over Denmark EE117 was attacked by a Bf 110 night fighter at 3500 metre altitude. At 03:11 hours the Lancaster fell to the ground in a field near Ustrup, killing all onboard. The crew were Pilot Wing Cdr. Irwin J. McGhie, P/O Victor G. Stabell RAAF, Flt.Engr. Sgt Peter J. Horsham, Navigator F/O Elmont G. Prest RCAF, Air Bomber P/O Peter M. Goldsmith RAAF, W/Op-Air Gnr. Sgt Ford A. Thompson RCAF, Air Gnr. Sgt William A. Mitchell and Air Gnr Sgt Alfred C. Chapman. -
Photo of FORD ARNOLD THOMPSON
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freehold newspaper c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder c.1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 220 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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