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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Family Son of John Thompson, West Park, South Shields.
• Extra info Thompson had exposed five plates and they were recovered after the crash

Military service

• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 45th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career Joined the Tyneside 'Commercials' soon after the outbreak of the war.;
  also served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Regiment

Death

• Wounded Patrol attacked by 2 Albatros DIIIs; shot down Railway Wood, near Ypres; crashed, between Ypres and Potijze; his Sopwith Strutter A1082 was attacked by the Albatros D.III of Lt Strahle. The pilot, Lubbock neither survived. Another Sopwith was involved in the combat and was shot down by the Albatros D.III of Lt Josef Flink. Lts Bowden and Stevenson did not survive. All four are buried at Lijssenthoek.
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - A - 16

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