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Corporal Thomas William Thomson (Service No:436098) enlisted in the RAAF in Perth WA on 7 November 1942 as an Aircraftman II - mustered as Air Crew, re mustered as Draughtsman. Corporal Thomson was attached to 4 Airfield Construction Squadron at Discharge on 22 January 1946.

Born in Mildura, Victoria in 1910, Thomas was the youngest of five children of Alexander Donald Thomson (b1867 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Jane Isabella Manson (b1879 in Palmerston, Northern Territory). Educated as a Civil Engineer and Architect, Alexander was in partnership with his brothers as a Horticulturalist in Mildura in 1890. He and Jane married in 1900 in Renmark, South Australia and settled in Mildura, where they raised their family and Alexander was Shire Engineer and a Surveyor. 

Thomas worked as a Pupil Surveyor when he left school and, following his father's death in 1935, went to the Goldfields in WA where he worked in Norseman and Esperance as a Cyanider on gold tailings and as an Unlicensced Surveyor. In 1936 in Norseman WA, Thomas married Ceridwen Davies (b1905 in Glamorgan, Wales) - Ceridwen had immigrated with her parents in 1912, arriving in Melbourne on board the Militiades and worked in Mildura as a Bookkeeper before going to the WA Goldfields with her family. Ceridwen worked as a Bookkeeper in Norseman and her father and brothers were Cyaniders. Following his  Discharge in 1946, Thomas and Ceridwen returned to Mildura, where they settled and raised their family and Thomas worked as a Surveyor. Both died in 1983 - Thomas in March and Ceridwen in May.