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Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
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)
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
From the Toronto Star January 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
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
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson
Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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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)
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From the Toronto Star January 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Thompson is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 119 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY Netherlands
The town of Nijmegen is 16 km south of Arnhem. JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY is 4 km south west of Nijmegen, 1 km south of the main Grave-Nijmegen road. Folowing the A73 exit at the junction Nijmegen Wijchen taking following directions to Nijmegen along the A32b entering Nijmegen on the Graafseweg. On reaching the Industrieterrein a Commission signpost directs visitors to turn left onto the Weg Door Jonkerbos. Shortly after appears a further signpost showing the left hand turning onto Oude Mollenhutseweg. The JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY is located on 150 metres after entering the Oude Mollenhutseweg on the right hand side of the road.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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