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Military service
Service number:
R/93193
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
140 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
November 9, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 24. H. 1-6.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands<P>Three RCAF crew members on board Wellington aircraft of 150 (RAF) Sqdn were killed when it did not return from operations against Hamburg, Germany. The bodies of the crew were not found until 1951 and the wreckage was not found until 1989. The two RCAF with F.Sgt. Thompson were F.Sgt. Donald MacPherson of Winnipeg and the pilot, F.Sgt. Douglas Prosser from Toronto. (Source: They Shall Grow Not Old, published by the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, MB) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor 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 -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 119 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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