Informal portrait of 425073 Sergeant, later Pilot Officer (PO), Henry St George Thompson, RAAF, ...

Accession Number P06919.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made c 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of 425073 Sergeant, later Pilot Officer (PO), Henry St George Thompson, RAAF, of Corinda, Qld. PO Thompson, who enlisted in Brisbane, Qld, on 7 December 1941, was accidentally killed, with other members of the crew of an Avro Anson aircraft, while attached to RAF Station West Freugh, Scotland, on 30 December 1943. He was 26 years old.