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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Hamilton
• Land Ontario, Canada
• Family Son of George C. and Mona L. Thomson, 44 Herkimer Street, Hamilton, Ontario.
• Education Highfield School, Hamilton; Trinity College 1914-1915; C.O.T.C.
• Profession Student

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 23 June 1915, Niagara Camp, Ontario
• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 58th Bn. Central Ontario Regiment
• Other data related to military career Spent one year with the COTC; to France in the spring of 1916; wounded in May 1916 near Ypres; rejoined the battalion in June 1917

Death

• Wounded Passchendaele; while joining a transport column
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds back penetrating, fractured left leg perforating, at n°8 Can Field Ambulance.
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - G - 6

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