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Military service
Service number:
J/86841
Age:
23
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
158 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
June 3, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave.
Additional information
Son of Harold Bennett Thompson and Edith Margaret Thompson, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson
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Photo of RUSSELL BENNETT THOMPSON
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Memorial
Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Russell Bennett 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 -
Photo of RUSSELL BENNETT THOMPSON
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Letter
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Newspaper clipping
From the Winnipeg Free Press 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 461 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ECQUETOT COMMUNAL CEMETERY Eure, France
Ecquetot is a village and commune 20 kilometres north-west of Evreux. This burial ground is in the fields 200 yards east of the D.79 road to La Haye-Malherbe, along a narrow road. In the south-eastern corner is the collective grave of four airmen, one of whom belonged to the Royal Air Force and the others to the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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