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Constable Joseph Thor Thompson

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 18200
Age: 27
Rank: Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Birth: January 16, 1934 Gimli, Manitoba
Enlistment: May 11, 1953
Death: December 18, 1961 Selkirk, Manitoba
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Cst. Thompson was raised in Gimli, Manitoba and was able to speak Icelandic fluently. He died at Selkirk, Manitoba, of injuries received while on duty on September 26, 1957, when Police Transport was struck by the wheels of a landing aircraft near Lethbridge Airport, Alberta. He is buried in the Cemetery of Gimli.

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Page 115 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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