Hand coloured studio portrait of 410398 Flying Officer (FO) Harold John Thompson, RAAF from ...

Accession Number P10800.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Unknown
Date made 1942 - 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Hand coloured studio portrait of 410398 Flying Officer (FO) Harold John Thompson, RAAF from Albury, NSW. An 18 year old shop assistant prior to joining the RAAF on 6 December 1941, he was serving with 106 Squadron RAF when he took off in a Lancaster from RAF Metheringham on 4 December 1944 for a bombing raid over Heilbronn, Germany. His aircraft was reported to have iced up and crashed between Stuttgart and Heilbronn, killing six crew members including the pilot, FO Thompson. The only survivor of the crash was taken prisoner by the Germans. FO Thompson is buried in the Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany.

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