Military service
Service number:
B/38059
Age:
28
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
48th Highlanders of Canada
Birth:
August 3, 1916
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 4, 1940
Brantford, Ontario
Death:
September 19, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II, D, 7.
Additional information
Son of Cecil and Elizabeth Thompson.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Cecil Lorne Thompson
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Cemetery
Entrance - Coriano Ridge War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Coriano Ridge War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Cross of Sacrifice - Coriano Ridge War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Coriano Ridge War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Coriano Ridge War Cemetery
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Badge
In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON -
Photo of CECIL LORNE THOMPSON
In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Cecil Lorne Thompson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 461 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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